A review by markfoskey
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe by Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe

3.0

The lead author sequenced the Denisovan DNA and has been at the center of modern progress in the use of genes to study ancient populations. The title is Eurocentric - this book really is a new history of old Europe, but that means that it is not properly a history of humanity. We don't get the migrations elsewhere in the world on anything like this level of detail. But it is far from triumphalist; this is fundamentally a history of innovations that happened elsewhere and were brought to Europe in a series of migrations.

Key chapters have a map of migrations and timeline at the beginning - a nice feature.