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1) Early humans
Series
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs present a description of early humans: their origins; their tools and weapons; how they hunted and foraged for food; and the role of family life, money, religion, and magic.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 7
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
67 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A natural disaster leaves a young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly - she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the...
5) Shardik
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. His advent commences a momentous chain of events. Kelderek the hunter, who loves and trusts the great bear, is swept on by destiny to become first devotee and then prophet, then victorious...
7) Stanley
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Stanley, a caveman who does not like to live in a cave, finally finds a different way of life for himself.
9) The Croods
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
DVD ; Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world's first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures, and their outlook is changed forever.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[1993], ©1960
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The Evolution Man is a novel about your basic upwardly mobile Pleistocene cave family - as they come down from trees (except for Uncle Vanya, who insists that it's the stupidest thing man ever did), dislodge a family of bears from the best cave in the neighborhood, and widen their digestive horizons to keep down things not only disgusting but disagreeable as well. Life cannot be all snails and sweetbreads. Recorded here is the correct version of the...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
This sequel recounts Ayla's three years of solitude in a cave after being pronounced 'dead' bythe Neanderthal clan who had raised the Cro-Magnon girl as their own. Her story alternates with that of Jondalar, a handsome young man of immense sex appeal who is journeying with his brother because he can't seem to find himself.
14) Prehistory
Author
Series
Publisher
Peter Bedrick Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Art and Civilization series helps children understand the past through paintings, murals, sculpture, architecture, and everyday objects -- much of it originally designed for placating the gods, bringing a successful harvest, observing traditions and rites, or adding to an individual's social standing. Each book is divided into thematic chapters such as how people lived, worked, socialized, fought wars, worshipped, and made new discoveries and...
15) Me hungry!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little prehistoric boy decides to hunt for his own food, and makes a new friend in the process.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"How to take the Paleo diet to the max for optimal weight loss and total health-from bestselling author and top Paleo expert Dr. Loren Cordain. Dr. Loren Cordain's bestselling The Paleo Diet and The Paleo Diet Cookbook have helped hundreds of thousands of people eat for better health and weight loss by following the diet humans were genetically designed to eat: meats, fish, fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts and other foods that mimic the diet of our...
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Language
English
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Description
The Bestselling Author of The Blessing Stone and Daughter of the Sun
She came to them from the sea, and to the sea they returned her. . . . A story of sacrifice and survival in the New World.
Tonina lives an idyllic life on a small island in the Caribbean hundreds of years before Europeans discovered it. But she has always been an outsider among her people. Unlike them, Tonina is tall and lean and light skinned, and her origins remain a mystery....
Author
Series
Geodyssey volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
446 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anthony introduces us to a new cast of characters, including Keeper, who knows the ways of nature, Rebel, a headstrong girl as brave as any man, Craft, a cunning inventor, and Crenelle, who uses her seductive charms to defend her people. Through their eyes, we see how some of the most crucial moments in human history have been driven by natural forces, from the great ice ages of prehistory to the droughts and plagues that have destroyed history's...
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