The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

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Contents
Introduction: The Human Epic
Part I: Scattered Shapes of a Fabulous Past
	1. The Infancy of Humanity
	2. Europe’s “Indigenous” Noble Savages
	3. The Creatures Deep Time Invented
	4. Humanity, Divided by Three
	5. The Conflict of the Sciences
Part II: The Concepts That Tied It All Together
	6. Mother Love: Primitive Communism
	7. The Disappearing Native
	8. Neanderthals, “Our Doubles”
	9. The Thin Veneer
	10. On the Antiquity of the Psyche
Part III: The Horror, Part I
	11. The Hordes and the Flood
	12. Nazis
	13. Bomb Them Back to the Stone Age!
	14. The Manchurian Catholic and the Future of Humanity
Part IV: The New Scientific Ideologies; or The Horror, Part II
	15. Darwin in the Age of UNESCO
	16. A History of Cave Painting
	17. Killer Apes for an Age of Decolonization
	18. Stone-Age Computers
	19. The Births and Ends of Patriarchy
	20. Is Violence Ingrained, and How?
Epilogue: A Storm Blowing from Paradise
Acknowledgments
Notes
Image Credits
Index
Also by Stefanos Geroulanos
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