📚 The Stone Age

Two million years of making: flint, bone, cave painting, and the human being before farming.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject stone age in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Everyday life in the new stone, bronze and early iron ages	Marjorie Quennell	1922	9
	The prehistory of East Africa	Sonia Mary Cole	1954	9
	The neolithic revolution	Sonia Mary Cole	1959	9
	The Stone Age News	Fiona MacDonald	1998	9
	The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain	Evans, John Sir	1872	8
	Earliest civilizations of the Near East	James Mellaart	1965	7
	The stone age in Egypt	Robert De Rustafjaell	1914	6
	Everyday life in the Old Stone Age	Marjorie Quennell	1922	5
	Godsdienst der praehistorie	Johannes Maringer	1950	5
	The stone age of Indonesia	H. R. van Heekeren	1957	5
	Atlas of the Stone-Age cultures of Qatar	Holger Kapel	1967	5
	Near Eastern, Mediterranean and European chronology	Homer L. Thomas	1967	5
	Lower Palaeolithic archaeology in Britain as represented by the Thames Valley	John Wymer	1968	5
	Cro-Magnon Man (The Emergence of Man)	Tom Prideaux	1973	5
	Stone Age People	Andrew Haslam	1996	5
	How to live like a stone-age hunter	Anita Ganeri	2015	5
	Neolithic man in North-East Surrey	Johnson, Walter	1903	4
	Neolithic dew-ponds and cattle-ways	Arthur John Hubbard	1905	4
	The stone age in North America	Warren King Moorehead	1910	4
	The mesolithic settlement of northern Europe	Grahame Clark	1936	4
	Life in the Old Stone Age	Charles Higham	1971	4
	Life in the Stone Age	Deborah Lock	2018	4
	Before the Pharaohs	Julian Maxwell Heath	2021	4
	The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain	D. A. E. Garrod	1926	3
	Some shell-heaps in Nova Scotia	Harlan Ingersoll Smith	1929	3
	Frozen tombs of Siberia	Rudenko, S. I.	1953	3
	Excavations at Star Carr	Grahame Clark	1954	3
	The stone age races of northwest Africa	Lloyd Cabot Briggs	1955	3
	The neolithic revolution	Sonia Cole	1959	3
	L' épipaléolithique marocain	Jean Roche	1963	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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