Farmers or Hunter Gatherers

“A highly readable, personal guide to the twists and turns in unravelling ancient DNA: Krause and Trappe expertly recount the story of archaeogenetics to reveal how this new field has utterly transformed understanding of our deep past.”—Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

Covering world history from its beginnings through 500 C.E., our guide covers critical aspects of this vast time period, showing how human beings evolved from hunter-gatherers to farmers, and then to city dwellers, building empires, inventing technologies, developing agriculture, forming governments and religions, and creating art and literature. Key events, figures and concepts are concisely explained for this grade range, and callout features illustrate civilizations and empires through history, as well as major world religions.

Surveys the history of changing tastes in food and fine dining what was available for people to eat, and how it was prepared and served from prehistory to the present day