What to Read After Prehistory
Readers who loved Prehistory by Colin Renfrew keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Prehistory is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Prehistory
Breaking the Maya code
Masters of the planet
The dawn of human culture
Human Evolution
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
After the Ice
The Tainos
The hedgehog, the fox and the magister's pox
A History of Archaeological Thought
The Black Death
The Prehistory of the Mind
The Making of Modern Economics
The future eaters
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
In small things forgotten
Europe between the oceans
Socrates to Sartre and Beyond
The black death
Africa in History
Home life in colonial days
Stone Age Economics (Anthropology and Ethnography: Economic Anthropology)
How humans evolved
Disturbances of the mind
The landscape of man