Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani

People of the Earth (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction to World Prehistory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial states, beginning about 5,000 years ago.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000841121
• Artikelnr.: 67764031

Autorenporträt

Brian M. Fagan is one of the world's leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory.

Nadia Durrani is an archaeologist and writer, with a PhD in the archaeology of pre-Islamic Arabia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introducing World Prehistory
PART I BEGINNINGS: 7 Million to 30,000 Years Ago
Chapter 2 Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.89 Million Years ago
Chapter 3 Archaic Humans: 1.9 Million to 30,000 Years Ago
PART II THE GREAT DIASPORA: THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS (c. 350,000 Years Ago to Modern Times)
Chapter 4 Origins and the Diaspora Begins (c. 350,000 Years Ago and later)
Chapter 5 Europe and Eurasia (c. 50,000 to 10,000 Years Ago)
Chapter 6 The First Americans (?c. 23,000 years ago to Modern Times)
Chapter 7 After the Ice (Before 10000 BC to Modern Times)
PART III FIRST FARMERS (c. 10,000 BC TO MODERN TIMES)
Chapter 8 Agriculture and Animal Domestication
Chapter 9 The Origins of Food Production in Southwest Asia Climate Change and Adaptation
Chapter 10 The First European Farmers
Chapter 11 First Farmers in Egypt and Tropical Africa
Chapter 12 Asia and the Pacific: Rice, Roots, and Ocean Voyages
Chapter 13 The Story of Maize: Early Farmers in the Americas
PART IV OLD WORLD STATES (c. 3000 BC TO MODERN TIMES)
Chapter 14 The Development of States
Chapter 15 Early States in Southwest Asia
Chapter 16 Egypt, Nubia, and Tropical Africa
Chapter 17 Early States in South and Southeast Asia
Chapter 18 Early Chinese States
Chapter 19 Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans
Chapter 20 Europe Before the Romans
PART V NATIVE AMERICAN STATES (BEFORE 2000 BC TO AD 1534)
Chapter 21 Mesoamerican States
Chapter 22 Andean States
Glossary of Technical Terms
Bibliography of World Prehistory
Credits
Index.