The Origins of Europeans and Their Pre-Historic Innovations from 6 Million to 10,000 BCE : From 6 Million to 10,000 BCE.

Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Human Family Tree -- Sahelanthropus tchadensis -- Orrorin -- Ardipithecus -- Australopithecus -- Lomekwi -- Olduwan -- Our Closest Living Relation -- Chimpanzee Bipedalism -- Chimpanzee Tools -- Chimpanzees and Warfare -- Land Ownership -- Altruism -- Sex For Pleasure -- Deception -- Laughter -- Language -- Human and Chimpanzee Brains -- Wernicke's Area -- Homo habilis -- Homo rudolfensis -- Homo erectus -- Homo Erectus In Africa -- In Asia -- Homo Erectus In The Levant -- Homo Erectus In Europe -- The Evolution of the Human Brain -- Homo heidelbergensis -- Neanderthals -- Neanderthal Skull -- Supraorbital Ridge -- Pilosity -- Skin Color -- Eyes -- Chin -- Teeth -- Occipital Bun -- Suprainiac Fossa -- The Nose -- General Build -- Neanderthal Way of Life -- Acheulean (Mode 2) -- Mousterian (Or Mode 3) -- Neanderthal Population -- Neanderthal Buildings -- Man's Best Friend -- Neanderthal Art -- Neanderthal Navigation -- Neanderthal Clothing -- Neanderthal Nomads and Their Diet -- Sedentary Neanderthals -- Sedentary Neanderthal Settlements -- The Ice Age -- The Rapidly Oscillating Climate -- Changing Times -- Chatelperronian -- Anatomically Modern Humans Or Transitional Humans -- Qafzeh Skhull Remains -- Uluzzian -- The Jaw -- Clothing -- Denisovan -- Aurignacian -- The Gravettian -- Sungir -- Shamanism -- Pavlovian -- Willendorfian-Kostenkian -- Kostenki -- Avdeevo -- Mal'ta -- Summary -- A Note On Ochre -- The End of the Ice Age -- Epigravettian -- Solutrean -- Magdalenian -- Altamira Cave -- Magdalenian In Britain -- Lascaux Cave -- Ice Age Megafauna -- Woolly Mammoth -- Cave Bear -- Cave Lion -- The Saber-Toothed Cats -- Cave Hyenas -- Woolly Rhinoceros -- The Reindeer -- The Wild Horse -- Megaloceros -- The Aurochs -- The Wolf -- The Great Extinction -- Mesolithic -- Hamburgian Culture.

Federmesser Culture -- Ahrensburg Culture -- Maglemosian -- Swiderian Culture -- Kunda Culture -- Azilian -- Sauveterrian -- Mesolithic in Italy -- Language -- Pidgins and Creoles -- Indo-European -- Uralic Languages -- Indo-European Language Family -- Leaving Our Past Behind -- The Great Journey -- Appendix A. Analytic Methods and Philosophy -- Appendix B. The Out of Africa II Theory -- Appendix C. Chronology of the Ice Age -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book highlights the crucial role that European ancestors played in human development and focuses on key stages of human progress, technological and social. Especially in the last 50,000 years, Europeans pioneered far-reaching changes in the way peoples around the world lived, which even affected their physical appearance. Europeans in particular had a hard time surviving, but it was overcoming these great challenges that set them apart.

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