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About this book
L'Humanité préhistorique by J. de (Jacques de Morgan) offers a vivid, authoritative journey through humanity’s earliest artistic and technological achievements. This art-focused synthesis — written by the former director of Antiquities in Egypt and enriched with some 1,300 figures and maps — traces prehistoric life from Paleolithic tool-making to Iron Age metallurgy, showing how technique, material, and imagination shaped human communities.
Morgan systematically examines the evolution of industries (paléolithic, archéolithic, mésolithic, néolithic, eneolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages), the working of hard materials, and daily life: shelters, hunting, fishing, animal domestication, agriculture, clothing and ornament. Beyond material culture, he probes intellectual development—prehistoric art, beliefs, totemism, magic, and the figuration of thought—placing early artistic expression in its social and intercultural context. The work reads as both a scholarly synthesis and an accessible narrative of cultural emergence.
Ideal for listeners fascinated by prehistoric art, archaeology, and the origins of craft and belief, this audiobook is perfect for students, museum-goers, and history lovers who want a richly illustrated, historically grounded account of how humans first made and meaningfully transformed their world.
