| Description |
495 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 453-465. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Part one: The development of modern archaeology -- Origins and growth of archaeology / David Whitehouse -- Revolution in archaeology / Andrew Sherratt -- Investigation in the field / Stephen Shennan -- Analysis and interpretation / Ian Hodder -- Economic archaeology / Robin Dennell -- Historical archaeology / Daphne Nash -- Recent advances and current trends / Colin Renfrew -- Part two: Man the hunter -- Ice Age environments / F. Alayne Street -- Man and the primates / Peter Andrews -- Early man / J. W. K. Harris / Handaxe makers / Derek Roe -- Development of human culture / Leslie Freeman -- Later Pleistocene hunters / Richard Klein -- Arrival of man in Australia / Alan Thorne -- Part III: The Postglacial revolution -- Beginnings of agriculture in the Near East and Europe / Andrew Sherratt -- Emergence of critics in the Near East / Joan Oates -- Mesopotamia and Iran in the Bronze Age / P. R. S. Moorey -- Egypt and the Levant in the Bronze Age / David O'Connor -- Agean and western Anatolia in the Bronze Age / Peter Warren -- Early agricultural communities in Europe / Andrew Sherratt -- Agricultural origins in East Asia / Ian C. Glover -- Early agriculture and the development of towns in India / Dilip Chakrabarti -- East Asia in the Bronze Age / Don Bayard -- Final stages of hunting and gathering in Africa / Ray Inskeep -- Agricultural origins in Africa / C. Thurstan Shaw -- IV: The early empires of the western Old World -- Assyrian empire / Nicholas Postgate -- Late Period Egypt and Nubia / David O'Connor -- Levant in the early first millennium BC / Peter Parr -- Iron Age Greece and the easter Mediterranean / Paul Cartledge -- Iran under the Achaemenians and Selucids / David Stronach -- Emergence of Arabia / Brian Doe -- Hellenistic world / Stephen Mitchell / First-millennium Europe before the Romans / John Alexander -- Western Mediterranean and the origins of Rome / T. W. Potter -- Rome and its Empire in the West / T. W. Potter -- Roman Empire in the East / Stephen Mitchell -- V: Empires in the eastern Old World -- Growth of a Chinese empire / Michael Loewe -- Rise of the nomads in central Asia / Marek Zvelebil -- India before and after the Mauryan empire / Romila Thapar -- South-east Asia: civilizations of the tropical forests / Bennet Bronson -- Imperial China and its neighbours / Denis Twitchett -- Forest cultures of south and south-east Asia / Gary Preland -- VI: Old empires and new forces -- Parthian and Sasnian Iran / Georgina Herrmann -- Byzantium: an empire under stress / Clive Foss -- Expansion of the Arabs / David Whitehouse -- Barbarian Europe in the first millennium / Dafydd Kidd -- Rise of temperate Europe / Colin Platt -- Urbanization of eastern Europe / Nikolai Dejevsky -- VII: On the edge of the Old World -- Northern forest cultures and the Arctic fringe / Marek Zvelebil -- Prehistory of Oceania: colonization and cultural change / G. J. Irwin -- Holocene Australia / G. N. Bailey -- Iron Age Africa and the expansion fo the Bantu / D. W. Phillipson -- Early states in Africa / Peter Garlake -- VIII: The New World -- North America in the early Postglacial / David Baerreis -- Colonization of the Arctic / Don E. Dumond -- Early agriculture in the Americas / Warwick Bray -- Agricultural groups in North America / James B. Griffin -- Mesoamerica: from village to empire John O'Shea -- Andean South America: from village to empire / Craig Morris -- Tropical forest cultures of the Amazon basin / Iris Barry -- IX: Pattern and process -- Interpretation and synthesis-a personal view / Andrew Sheratt -- Part three: Frameworks: dating and distribution -- Dating and dating methods/ Richard Burleigh -- Comparative chronologies / J. W. Lewthwaite and Adrew Sherratt -- Chronological atlas / J. W. Lewthwaite and Andrew Sherratt. |
| Subject |
Archaeology.
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Prehistoric peoples.
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Civilization, Ancient.
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| Added Author |
Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006.
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Clark, Grahame, 1907-1995.
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| ISBN |
0517534975 |
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9780517534977 |
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