Eyewitness A stunning collection of specially commissioned photographs presents a survey of early people and their tools, weapons, clothing, jewellery, food, and rituals. The items are reproduced with such clarity of detail that they give a new insight into the lives of their original owners.Beginning with remains that are up to four million years old, the book follows the story of human development from the first ape-like hominids to the arrival of modern people, the species we know as homo sapiens. Early People shows the methods used to produce flint tools, to hunt for food, to make fire and cook, to cure hides and make clothes, and to create intricate objects in bronze and iron.Early People is a fascinating guide to the objects left behind in prehistoric settlements around the world. It tells the story of how life on earth has changed - from the millions of years it took for mankind to discover how to make tools and fire, to the more rapid development of the Bronze and Iron Ages.- Here is an original and exciting new look at the fascinating world of ancient people and their ways of life.- Stunning real-life photographs of tools, weapons, jewellery, clothing, and even the remains of the people themselves, offer a unique "eyewitness" view of how human life changed during its first four million years.- See the tools used by the first farmers; the oldest surviving food; the weapons of a Bronze-Age chieftain; what our earliest ancestors looked like- Learn why humans first stood upright; how people survived the cold of the Ice Age; how scientists uncovered the Piltdown Man hoax; how to make a flint axehead; which people used magic to find their food- Discover how early people hunted and gathered their food; which people made jewellery out of leopards" teeth and hornets" wing-cases; how bread was made in the Bronze Age; how mummies and bog bodies have been preserved