fossil hominids

Presents an introduction to prehistory, in simple text with illustrations, describing the way of life of people who lived before recorded history.

Explores the work of Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, focusing on his role in the discovery of the Peking Man, how the Church reacted to his work, and his loyalty to his religion.

Describes the 1974 discovery of the oldest, most complete skeleton of any erect walking human ancestor yet found.

Discusses human evolution and the search for the earliest forms of humans, examining the Neanderthals, Homo erectus, the variety of fossils found in Africa, and the early apelike hominids.

Richard Leakey examines the evidence and the various theories about the origin of human beings.

Archaeologists examine a humanlike skeleton excavated from a cave on Flores Island in Indonesia that turned out to be an adult woman of extremely small stature,and studies evidence to the discovery of a race of small humans 12,000 years ago.

Presents an illustrated introduction to Mary Leakey, the twentieth-century British archaeologist who discovered a fossilized skull that linked humans to apes.

Describes the discovery of the famous hominid Lucy to explore our understanding of human origins.

The authors use a variety of primary sources including prehistoric footprints, cave drawings, and skeletons of early humans to present the story of early human life.

Ilustrated study of evolution and prehistoric times, focusing on the discovery of Lucy, the skeleton of a modern human predecessor known as Australopithecus afarensis believed to be over three-million-years-old, which was found in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia in 1974.