The Ancient World: Evolution & Prehistory

Possibilities for research projects in this area include:

• Paleoanthropology: scientists with shovels
• Charles Darwin
• the "Creationist" controversy in the schools
• early hominids: Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus
• Neanderthal Man
• Paleolithic Art
• The Ice Age
• Making stone tools

• Roger Lewin, In the Age of Mankind
• Donald Johanson, Ancestors: in Search of Human Origins
• Richard E. Leakey, The Making of Mankind
• Richard E. Leakey & Roger Lewin, Origins
• Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden
• Steven Jay Gould: any of his books on evolution
• Jean M. Auel: any of the novels (Clan of the Cave Bear, etc.)
• Ian Tattersall, The Last Neanderthal
• Colin Trudge, The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact
• Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
• James Shreeve, The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins