Books like The evolution of culture by Leslie A. White

Zecharia Sitchin's gripping exploration of ancient conflicts, revealing the Earth's violent origins on another world.

Lewis Henry Morgan’s ‘Ancient Society’ traces humanity’s cultural progress through three stages—savagery, barbarism, and civilization—using comparative analysis of historic and contemporary peoples.

"The origins and development of human society are explored and illuminated in this compelling history. The book provides readers with an understanding of the exhibition of humans and the cultures they established, from the first traces of humanity to the creation of early literate societies."--BOOK JACKET. "The author examines how Homo sapiens emerged as the sole-surviving human species and developed into modern humans. He provides a global account of prehistoric life and the roots of modern societies and hereditary ranking, the origins of language, the importance of agriculture, the evolution of tool-making, the development of religion, and the beginnings of war."--BOOK JACKET.

V. Gordon Childe’s 1939 work explores how archaeological evidence illustrates the Marxist view of cultural evolution, emphasizing interpenetration, creativity, and the entwined development of biological and cultural traits leading to modern humans.

The breakthrough book that was immediately recognized as a work of monumental importance when it first introduced the theory that ancient earth had established contact with aliens. This world-famous bestseller endures as proof that Earth has been visited repeatedly by advanced aliens from other worlds. Erich von Däniken examines ancient ruins, lost cities, space-ports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Most incredible of all, however, is von Däniken's theory that we ourselves are descendants of these galactic pioneers--and the archeological finds that prove it: 1.Sophisticated batteries found in Bronze Age cities 2.An alien astronaut preserved in a pyramid 3.Thousand-year-old spaceflight navigation charts 4.Computer astronomy from Incan and Egyptian ruins 5. A map of the land beneath the ice cap of Antarctica 6. A giant spaceport discovered in the Andes