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Walking with Cavemen

$39.95

Authors - John Lynch & Louise Barrett
Published in 2003 by BBC, UK
Hardcover, 224 Pages
Size - 26.5cm * 29cm

The last six million years of the Earth’s history have created a unique creature-a cocktail of extraordinary traits has been mixed to create us, human beings. Combining epic science with the drama of individual lives, Walking with Cavemen is the tale of every man, woman and child on the planet today.

Our story begins in East Africa where apes left the forests and walked on to feet. Descended from these, our earliest ancestors, came a range of different hominids living alongside each other in conflict and harmony until, two million years ago, the remarkable Homo ergaster evolved. With a human-like body and a brain 50 per cent bigger than its predecessors, this was the first ape-man to build a fledgling society and to migrate out of Africa.

The descendants of ergaster reached Europe some 750, 000 years ago, but as the world sank into a long ice age they in turn gave way to the Neanderthals. These were effectively our human cousins, and they dominated the cold war for over 200, 000 years. When modern humans evolved in Africa and travelled north, we lived alongside the Neanderthals for many generations, but in the end, around 25, 000 years ago, they became extinct. For the first there was only one kind of human on the planet: Homo sapiens.

The story of our evolution is illuminated by features on the science behind the television series, including the latest findings about our earliest ancestors, and accounts of archaeologists’ most important discoveries, including Lucy, Boxgrove and the ‘black skull’. This stunning book is illustrated throughout with live-action photography and state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery from the programmes. A journey that reaches back through time and covers the globe, Walking with Cavemen is the ultimate family history.

Fully Illustrated in Colour