Brian M. Fagan, Nadia Durrani

World Prehistory (eBook, PDF)

A Brief Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is an introduction to human prehistory written for complete beginners with a global perspective, written in a jargon-free style that covers 3 million years of the remote past from human origins to the first pre-industrial civilizations, balancing theoretical discussion with descriptions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000875256
• Artikelnr.: 68089722

Autorenporträt

Brian M. Fagan is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He graduated from Cambridge University. His many books include eight bestselling undergraduate texts on archaeology (with Nadia Durrani), with whom he also wrote Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from our Ancestors.

Nadia Durrani, FSA, read archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge University before taking a PhD in archaeology from University College London. An editor and author within archaeology, she has collaborated widely with Brian Fagan including as co-author of Bigger Than History: Why Archaeology Matters.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Chronologies and Measurements
Part I Prehistory: 1. Introducing World Prehistory
Part II The World of the First Humans: 2 Human Origins
3. African Exodus
Part III The Birth of the Modern World: 4 Diaspora, 5 The Origins of Food Production
6 The Earliest Farmers
7 Chiefs and Chiefdoms
Part IV The First States (Preindustrial Civilizations): 8 State-Organized Societies
9 Mesopotamia and the Eastern Mediterranean World
10 Egypt and Africa
11 South, Southeast, and East Asia
PART V Preindustrial States in the Americas: 12 Lowland Mesoamerica
13 Highland Mesoamerica
14 Andean States
Epilogue
Glossary of Technical Terms
Glossary of Archaeological Sites and Cultural Terms
References
Index.