The Great Divide
History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
'In drawing together evidence from complex strands of archaeology, climatology, genetics and religious symbolism, Watson is compulsively speculative' IndependentAround 15,000 BC humans spread out from Africa, arriving in Siberia during the Ice Age. Locked up in ice sheets, the world's oceans were 400 feet lower than today, allowing humans to walk across the Bering Strait and enter America. When then Ice Age ended, the Strait refilled with water. This isolated the Americas and created a division - with two populations unaware of each other - until Columbus 'discovered' America in AD 1492.The Great Divide compares and contrasts the development…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7538-2845-8
- EAN: 9780753828458
- Produktnummer: 13700883
- Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 640 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D3.9 cm 844 g
- Gewicht: 844
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Peter Watson was born in 1943 and educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome. He was deputy editor of New Society and spent four years as part of the 'Insight' team of The Sunday Times. He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for the Observer, The New York Times, Punch and The Spectator. He is the author of thirteen books and has presented several television programmes about the arts. Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, at the University of Cambridge.
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