by Jean Clottes, Jean Guilaine, André Langaney · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020357821
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«La Plus Belle Histoire de l'Homme» is the historical popular science essay by Jean Clottes, Jean Guilaine and André Langaney, published by Seuil in paperback.
The book reconstructs human origins and evolution: from a small group of hunters to global humanity, with three decisive conquests: territory, imagination and power. It explains how the couple, the family, art, beliefs and war emerged, and how culture ended up trapping the species.
It continues the popular science series begun with «La Plus Belle Histoire du monde». It is subtitled «Comment la Terre devint humaine». It has 192 pages and text in French.
Recommended for popular science readers interested in prehistory, archaeology and human evolution.
Jean Clottes is a prominent French prehistorian. He was born in the French Pyrenees in 1933 and began to study archaeology in 1959, while teaching high school. He initially focused on Neolithic dolmens, which were the topic of his 1975 Ph.D. thesis at the University of Toulouse. After being appointed director of prehistoric antiquities for the Midi-Pyrénées in 1971, he began to study prehistoric cave art in order to fulfill the responsibilities of that position. In the following years he led a series of excavations of prehistoric sites in the region. In 1992, he was named General Inspector for Archaeology at the French Ministry of Culture; in 1993 he was appointed Scientific Advisor for prehistoric rock art at the French Ministry of Culture. He formally retired in 1999, but remains an active contributor to the field.
