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NM's Creative Impulse Prehistory
A collection of links broken down by time period.
http://history.evansville.net/prehist.html
Prehistory.org
A portal offering prehistory news, research and conference information.
http://www.prehistory.org/
The Prehistoric Society
Concerned with prehistory world-wide, its membership is drawn from many countries. Newsletters online, lectures, events, grants, merchandise.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/
The Long Foreground: Human Prehistory
An interactive tutorial produced by the Learning Commons of Washington State University.
http://www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/lfopen-index.html
Stone Age Habitats
Overview of construction by early humans. Includes a summary of environmental alteration by prehistoric peoples.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/habitat/
Reflections on Prehistory
Offers an overview of prehistory ranging from topics on early hominids to regional discussions of prehistory in the Near East and the American Southwest.
http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/prehisty.html
Prehistoric Man by History Link 101
Offers links categorized in five areas: art, daily life, maps, pictures, and research on early man.
http://www.historylink101.com/prehistory.htm
Prehistory and Disease
A educational series created by the BBC that discusses the origins of modern medicine.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/medicine/nonint/menus/prdtmenu.shtml
Ecological Role of Prehistoric Humans
An overview of how populations altered ecosystems and extinguished species prior to developing advanced technology.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dallan/nre220/outline4.htm
Edge 3rd Culture
A talk by Jared Diamond, Ph.D. from UCLA that addresses the question of why human history unfolded differently on different continents for the last 13,000 years.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond/diamond_p1.html
Human Prehistory: An Exhibition
Offers an overview of human evolution and prehistory with a particular emphasis on early human developments in the Old World. The graphically enhanced tours open with a discussion of the origins of the study of "hominid evolution".
http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/prehis.htm
Prehistory Objectives
Portion of World History course, which provides an overview of both the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods as well as a section on different theoretical models used to conceptualize prehistory.
http://www.stedwards.edu/bss/aflorek/phobj.htm
Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins
Norman Berdichevsky finds that this book by Colin Renfrew upsets established ideas. From Contemporary Review.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2242/1597_274/54140921/print.jhtml
Prehistory of Alaska
An overview from the American National Park Service. Includes a bibliography of print resources on the topic.
http://www.nps.gov/akso/akarc/
Ancient Man
A collection of resources and links, categorized by continent, for exploring prehistoric people and early civilizations.
http://ancientman.com/
Ancient Greece and Early America
Early West and Native/Colonial America: artifacts, music, film clips, maps/time-lines, plus contributions from visual artists and historians.
http://ancientgreece-earlyamerica.com
Systematics in Prehistory ebook
Robert C. Dunnell questions the validity of the concepts and assumptions of scientific classification of prehistoric societies based upon artifacts. A hypertext companion to the book with the same title that features chapter summaries and a glossary.
http://darwin.anth.csulb.edu/rcd/book/
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