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World prehistory and archaeology : pathways through time /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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London:
Routledge,
2018
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. The past is a foreign country : getting from here to there
- Introduction: Questions of time and ethics
- Getting started in archaeology
- Putting the picture together
- Part Two. Human evolution
- Introduction: Our place in nature
- Early hominins
- From Homo erectus to Neanderthals
- The origin of modern humans
- The peopling of Australia and the New World
- Part Three. Perspectives on agriculture
- Introduction: Definitions of agriculture
- Towers, villages, and longhouses
- Mounds and maize
- A feast of diversity
- Part Four. The development of social complexity
- Introduction: Defining social complexity
- Complexity without the state
- Cities, pyramids, and palaces : early states of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean
- Locating the source of authority : early states in Asia
- From city to empire : social complexity in Mesoamerica
- Bringing the four parts together : states and empire in the Andes
- Epilogue.