Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations

Scope
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Part I
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ToC
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1
Introducing Human Prehistory......Page 6
2
In the Beginning......Page 9
3
Our Earliest Ancestors......Page 12
4
The First Human Diaspora......Page 15
5
The First Europeans......Page 18
6 The Neanderthals
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7 The Origins of Homo sapiens sapiens
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8
The Great Diaspora......Page 27
9 The World of the Cro-Magnons
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10 Artists and Mammoth Hunters
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11 The First Americans
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12 The Paleo-Indians and Afterward
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Timeline......Page 42
Glossary......Page 45
Part II......Page 52
ToC
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13 After the Ice Age
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14 The First Farmers
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15 Why Farming?
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16 The First European Farmers
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17 Farming in Asia and Settling the Pacific
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18 The Story of Maize
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19 The Origins of States and Civilization
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20 Sumerian Civilization
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21 Ancient Egyptian Civilization to the Old Kingdom
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22 Ancient Egypt: Middle and New Kingdoms
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23 The Minoan Civilization of Crete
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24 The Eastern Mediterranean World
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Part III
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ToC
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25 The Harappan Civilization of South Asia
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26 South and Southeast Asia
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27 Africa: A World of Interconnectedness
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28
The Origins of Chinese Civilization......Page 121
29
China: Zhou to the Han......Page 124
30 Southeast Asian Civilizations
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31 Pueblos and Moundbuilders in North America
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32 Ancient Maya Civilization
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33
Highland Mesoamerican Civilization......Page 136
34 The Origins of Andean Civilization
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35 The Inka and Their Predecessors
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36 Epilogue
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Bibliography......Page 148