World prehistory : the basics
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World prehistory : the basics
（The basics）
Routledge, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
* Provides a short and simple, but entertaining, account of the prehistoric past from human origins to today from a global perspective in contrast to the current lengthy textbooks on the subject
* Shows how such contemporary issues such as biological and cultural diversity, gender, and climate change have deep roots in the remote past and thus resonates with the concerns of readers
* Short and low cost introductory text for students studying the subject for the first time from two experienced textbook writers
Table of Contents
- 1. Beginnings (c. 6 to 2 Ma)
- 2. Out of Africa (c. 2 Ma and later)
- 3. Enter Homo sapiens (c. 300,000 years ago and later)
- 4. Modern humans in the north (c. 50,000 to 12,000 years ago)
- 5. After the ice (c. 15,000 years ago and later)
- 6. Farmers and herders (c. 10,000 BCE and later)
- 7. Villages, towns, and chiefs (after about 8,000 BCE)
- 8. Sumerians and Assyrians (c. 3100 to 612 BCE)
- 9. By Nile and Indus (c. 3100 to 30 BCE)
- 10. China and Southeast Asia (after 5250 BCE to 1532 CE)
- 11. Mesoamerica (c. 1500 BCE to 1532 CE)
- 12. Andean civilizations (3000 BCE to 1532 CE)
- 13. Epilogue
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