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• - Overview of construction by early humans. Includes a summary of environmental alteration by prehistoric peoples.
  
• - Concerned with prehistory world-wide, its membership is drawn from many countries. Newsletters online, lectures, events, grants, merchandise.
  
• - A collection of resources and links, categorized by continent, for exploring prehistoric people and early civilizations.
  
• - Offers an overview of human evolution and prehistory with a particular emphasis on early human developments in the Old World. The graphically enhanced tours open with a discussion of the origins of the study of "hominid evolution".
  
• - Offers links categorized in five areas: art, daily life, maps, pictures, and research on early man.
  
• - Portion of World History course, which provides an overview of both the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods as well as a section on different theoretical models used to conceptualize prehistory.
  
• - Offers an overview of prehistory ranging from topics on early hominids to regional discussions of prehistory in the Near East and the American Southwest.
  
• - Norman Berdichevsky finds that this book by Colin Renfrew upsets established ideas. From Contemporary Review.
  
• - A talk by Jared Diamond, Ph.D. from UCLA that addresses the question of why human history unfolded differently on different continents for the last 13,000 years.
  
• - A collection of links broken down by time period.
  
• - Robert C. Dunnell questions the validity of the concepts and assumptions of scientific classification of prehistoric societies based upon artifacts. A hypertext companion to the book with the same title that features chapter summaries and a glossary.
  
• - A portal offering prehistory news, research and conference information.
  
• - An overview of how populations altered ecosystems and extinguished species prior to developing advanced technology.
  
• - Early West and Native/Colonial America: artifacts, music, film clips, maps/time-lines, plus contributions from visual artists and historians.
  
• - A educational series created by the BBC that discusses the origins of modern medicine.
  
• - An interactive tutorial produced by the Learning Commons of Washington State University.
  
  

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