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  title info:
    title: Lost worlds
    sub title: how humans tried, failed, succeeded, and built our world
  name:
    name part: Wyman, Patrick
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Informational works.
  genre: Documents d'information.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 446 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
  abstract: "A new look at humanity's deep past to show us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by trial and error on a planetary scale. There's a familiar story about us humans: we went from hunting and gathering to farming, wandering bands to villages and cities, clans and chieftains to states and kings. But Lost Worlds offers a new narrative of humanity's deep history. Here beloved podcast host Patrick Wyman focuses on the 10,000-year span between the end of the Ice Age and the decline of the Bronze Age--the period when civilization as we understand it emerged, introducing social hierarchies, urbanism, complex political organizations, and the written word. In this nuanced retelling, human progress is no longer a straight march from caves to cities: Farming didn't always replace foraging, villages didn't automatically spark agriculture, and cities didn't necessitate rigid hierarchies. For thousands of years, humans merely improvised. By the end of the Bronze Age, the world had become unrecognizable: mammoths and giant sloths replaced by cattle and sheep, scattered nomadic bands replaced by millions living in cities, and farming on nearly every continent. Wyman argues that the rise of states and steady food production wasn't inevitable, but rather, the outcome of countless choices that reshaped the planet and made us who we are today."-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Part 1: Unstable planet. The world as it was ; The dawn of the Holocene ; The Fertile Crescent and the birth of agriculture ; The many cradles of agriculture ; The end of the beginning -- Part 2: The long Neolithic. Global Neolithics ; Massacres, mass graves, and the dark side of the Neolithic ; The heights of the late Neolithic -- Part 3: Civilization and its discontents. Two murders at the dawn of history ; The first "civilizations" ; Language and migration from the Steppe to the Pacific ; Why the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge were only built once -- Part 4: Fall and rise, rise and fall. A spate of falling civilizations ; Peaceful lives in the late Bronze Age ; War ; The Bronze Age collapse -- Epilogue.
  target audience: adult
  note: Patrick Wyman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-427) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Neolithic period
  subject:
    topic: Bronze age
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Prehistoric peoples
  subject:
    topic: Civilisation ancienne
  subject:
    topic: Néolithique
  subject:
    topic: Neolithic
  subject:
    topic: Ancient civilization
  subject:
    topic: Stone Age
  subject:
    topic: Bronze Age
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
  classification: CB311 .W96 2026
  classification: 930
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Lost worlds
    name:
      name part: Wyman, Patrick
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Harper, 2026
      edition: First edition
    identifier: (DLC) 2025042394
  identifier: 9780063256484
  identifier: 0063256487
  identifier: 9780063256507
  identifier: 2025042393
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 260402
    record change date: 20260629022527.3
    record identifier: in00005786133
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng