PublishedPhoenix Books, February 2013 |
ISBN9780753828458 |
FormatSoftcover, 640 pages |
Dimensions23.5cm × 15.4cm × 3.8cm |
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age. When the Ice Age came to an end, humans in the Americas were cut off from humans elsewhere in the world. This division - with two great populations on Earth, each oblivious of the other - continued until Columbus 'discovered'
America just before 1500 A.D. Watson compares and contrasts the development of humankind in the 'Old World' and the 'New' between 15,000 B.C. and 1500 A.D.