Reading list for this year’s non-fiction reading project: a contemporary exploration of the first traces of human civilisation, circa 10,000-5,000 BC.

1. Meave Leakey with Samira Leakey. The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past. Mariner Books, 2020.
2. Chris Gosden. Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction. OUP, 2018.
3. Rens Bod. World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge. trans. Leston Buell. John Hopkins University Press, 2022.
4. Thomas Higham. The World Before Us. Penguin (Viking), 2021.
5. Louise Humphrey and Chris Stringer. Our Human Story. Natural History Museum, 2018.
6. Kermit Pattinson. Fossil Men. Harper Collins (Wiliam Morrow), 2021.

If there any titles you’d care to add to my reading list I am open to suggestions of anything published in the last ten years.