People of the earth : an introduction to world prehistory

書誌事項

People of the earth : an introduction to world prehistory

Brian M. Fagan

HarperCollins College Publishers, c1995

8th ed

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-568) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The story of human history throughout the world is told in this book, from the origins of humankind to the beginnings of literate civilizations. Fagan does not favour any specific theoretical position. This eighth edition includes recent developments and emerging topics such as cultural complexity among hunter-gatherers and the origins of agriculture. Also featured in this edition are new chapter-opening anecdotes, chapter summaries, redesigned chronological tables, and illustrations.

目次

  • Part 1 Prehistory: archaeology
  • approaches to world prehistory. Part 2 The first humans (c.4 million to 40,000 years ago): human origins - the emergence of "handy person" (4.0 million to 1.6 million years ago)
  • Homo erectus and Homo sapiens (1.6 million to 40,000 years ago). Part 3 The spread of Homo sapiem (c.40,000 to 6000 BC): European and Northern Asians (45,000 BC to modern times)
  • intensification and complexity (before 10,000 BC to modern times)
  • the first American
  • Africans and Australians. Part 4 Farmers (c.10,000 BC to modern times): a plenteous harvest - the origins
  • the origins of food production in the Near East
  • early European farmers
  • early farmers of Africa
  • Asia - rice, roots, and ocean voyages
  • the story of maize
  • early farming societies in the Americas. Part 5 Old world civilizations (c.3000 BC to modern times): the development of civilization
  • Mesopotamia and the first cities
  • Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Early States in South and Southeast Asia
  • Shang Civilisation in East Asia
  • Hittites, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans
  • temperate Europe before the Romans. Part 6 State-organized societies in the Americas (2000 BC to AD 1532) Mesoamerican civilizations
  • Andean states.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB25443647
  • ISBN
    • 0673523942
  • LCCN
    94008780
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York, NY
  • ページ数/冊数
    xx, 595 p.
  • 大きさ
    26 cm
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