Prehistoric Men: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Prehistoric Men, credited to Robert J. Braidwood, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Prehistoric Men by Robert J. Braidwood. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. This little book, first published in 1948, is part of the Chicago Natural History Popular History series that explains difficult subjects in ways and terms we all can understand. It was published at a time in Anthropology when exciting things like carbon dating were first being used and refined. "Prehistory means the time before written history began. Actually, more than 99 per cent of man’s story is prehistory. Man is at least half a million years old, but he did not begin to write history (or to write anything) until about 5,000 years ago. The men who lived in prehistoric times left us no history books, but they did unintentionally leave a record of their presence and their way of life. This record is studied and interpreted by different kinds of scientists." - Summary by the author and phil chenevert

Recording facts

• Recording title: Prehistoric Men
• Author credits: Robert J. Braidwood
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 5:32:01

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• anthropology
• science

Track guide

1. 01 - How We Learn about Prehistoric Men — 19:04
2. 02 - The Changing World in Which Prehistoric Men Lived — 9:55
3. 03 - Prehistoric Men Themselves — 33:42
4. 04 - Cultural Beginnings — 36:42
5. 05 - More Evidence of Culture — 25:12
6. 06 - Early Moderns — 31:25
7. 07 - End and Prelude — 57:18
8. 08 - The First Revolution — 44:51
9. 09 - The Conquest of Civilization — 35:47
10. 10 - End of Prehistory — 29:00
11. 11 - Summary — 9:05

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