The Great Divide
History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
$58.45
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2013
Summary
In 15,000 B.C., early humankind arrived in Siberia during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up in the great ice sheets, the levels of the world’s oceans were much lower, and early humans were able to walk across the Bering Strait, then a land bridge, to enter the Americas.
Then, the Ice Age came to an end, the Bering Strait refilled with water, and humans in the Americas were cut off from humans elsewhere in the world. This division continued until Christopher Columbus arr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753828458 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753828456 |
| Author: | Peter Watson |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 720g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 46mm |
| Series: | Phoenix |
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Watson gathers academic research from numerous disciplines into a comparatively reader-friendly form. * THE HERALD *This is a fascinating doorstopper of a work * THE SUNDAY BUSINESS POST *Watson’s fascinating theme compares the two great populations in the Americas and the ‘Old World’, separated in 15,000 BC, when the ice Age ended and the Bering Strait land bridge became submerged. * THE LADY *
About The Author
Peter Watson
Peter Watson was born in 1943 and educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome. He was deputy editor of New Society and spent four years as part of the ‘Insight’ team at the Sunday Times. He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for the Observer, the NEW New York Times, Punch and the Spectator. He is the author of 13 books and has presented several television programmes about the arts. Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
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