Provides a temporal context for significant developments in creative endeavors from the earliest body ornamentation, musical instruments, rock engravings, and cave paintings to 20th-century literature
This chronology selectively fulfills its subtitle of "a record of philosophical, political, theological, and social thought from ancient times to the present" beginning with the Neanderthals in 48,000
The authors of the New York Public Library Book of Answers series present a timeline of scientific progress and equally intriguing detours from the Stone Age to the Information Age. Within each year
Cites thousands of events in women's experience from prehistoric times to the present with lists in categories of politics/law/war, religion/education/everyday life, science/technology/medicine, and a
