by Annalee Newitz
W.W. Norton & Co, 2021. 297 pages.
Science journalise Annalee Newitz explores the history of urban life through four ancient cities from across the globe. If you are interested in archaeology and the ancient past, you may be familiar with Catalhoyuk, Pompeii, Angkor, and Cahokia. Newitz presents the latest research on these four cities and dives into the rise and fall of these metropolises from the four corners of the globe.
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
by Craig Shields
Little, Brown and Co, 2007. 496 pages.
The greatest unsolved mystery of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's northwestern New Mexico) and built a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval N. Harari
Harper, 2015. 443 pages.
A narrative history of humanity's creation and evolution explores how biology and history have defined understandings of what it means to be human, detailing the role of modern cognition in shaping the ecosystem, civilizations and more.
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