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1 online resource (3 volumes (xxii, 2049 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cambridge histories online
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Cambridge histories. Ancient history and classical studies
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| Contents |
Volume 1. Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific -- volume 2. East Asia and the Americas -- volume 3. Western and Central Asia and Europe |
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Volume 1. Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction ; 2. Introduction: DNA ; 3. Introduction: Languages; -- Part II. Africa. 4. Early hominins ; 5. Earliest industries of Africa ; 6. Human revolution ; 7. Genus Homo in Africa ; 8. Becoming human: archaeology of the Sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age ; 9. Later Stone Age of Southern Africa ; 10. Prehistory in North Africa after the Middle Palaeolithic ; 11. Holocene prehistory of West Africa ; 12. Archaeology of the Central African rainforest: its current state ; 13. Later prehistory of Southern Africa from the early to the late Iron Age ; 14. Prehistory of East Africa ; 15. Neolithic and predynastic Egypt ; 16. Emergence of the Egyptian state ; 17. Pharaonic history ; 18. Summary of classical and post-classical Africa ; 19. Africa: Languages -- Part III. South and Southeast Asia. 20. Palaeolithic of South Asia ; 21. Early Palaeolithic of Southeast Asia ; 22. South and Southeast Asia: DNA ; 23. Upper Palaeolithic of South and Southeast Asia ; 24. Post-Pleistocene South Asia: Food production in India and Sri Lanka ; 25. The Indus civilisation ; 26. India beyond the Indus civilisation ; 27. Historic India ; 28. Early food production in Southeast Asia ; 29. Complex society in prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia ; 30. Summary of historic mainland Southeast Asia ; 31. Prehistory of the Indonesian archipelago ; 32. Philippines ; 33. South and Island Southeast Asia: Languages -- Part IV. The Pacific. 34. Pacific: DNA ; 35. Sahul and Near Oceania in the Pleistocene ; 36. New Guinea during the Holocene ; 37. Later prehistory of Australia ; 38. Micronesia ; 39. Melanesia ; 40. Polynesia ; 41. New Zealand ; 42. Pacific: Languages |
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Volume 2. East Asia and the Americas. Part V. East Asia. 1. East Asia: DNA ; 2. Early Palaeolithic of Central and Northern Asia ; 3. Upper Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia ; 4. Early sedentism in East Asia: from late Palaeolithic to early agricultural societies in insular East Asia ; 5. Neolithic of Northern and Central China ; 6. Neolithic of Southern China ; 7. Early complex societies in Northern China ; 8. Early complex societies in Southern China ; 9. China from Zhou to Tang ; 10. Complex society in Korea and Japan ; 11. Later prehistory of the Russian Far East ; 12. East Asia: Languages; -- Part VI. The Americas. 13. Americas: DNA ; 14. Initial peopling of the Americas: context, findings, and issues ; 15. Paleoindian and Archaic periods in North America ; 16. Paleoindian and Archaic of Central and South America ; 17. Archaic and formative periods of Mesoamerica ; 18. Agricultural origins and social implications in South America ; 19. Basin of Mexico ; 20. Olmec, 1800-400 BCE ; 21. Oaxaca ; 22. Origins and development of lowland Maya civilisation ; 23. Early coastal South America ; 24. Development of early Peruvian civilisation (2600-300 BCE) ; 25. Styles and identities in the Central Andes: the early Intermediate Period and Middle Horizon ; 26. Late Intermediate Period and Late Horizon ; 27. Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela ; 28. Prehistory of Amazonia ; 29. Argentina and Chile ; 30. Caribbean islands ; 31. Southwestern region of North America ; 32. Pacific Coast of North America ; 33 Great Plains and Mississippia Valley ; 34. Eastern Atlantic coast ; 35. Northern North America ; 36. Americas: Languages |
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Volume 3. Part VII. Western and Central Asia. 1. Early prehistory of Western and Central Asia ; 2. Western and Central Asia: DNA ; 3. Upper Palaeolithic and earlier Epi-Palaeolithic of Western Asia ; 4. Origins of sedentism and agriculture in Western Asia; 5. Levant in the pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods; 6. Settlement and emergent complexity in Western Syria, c. 7000-2500 BCE ; 7. Prehistory and the rise of cities in Mesopotamia and Iran ; 8. Mesopotamia ; 9. Anatolia: from the pre-pottery Neolithic to the end of the early Bronze Age (10,500-2000 BCE) ; 10. Anatolia 2000 to 550 BCE ; 11. The prehistory of the Caucasus: internal developments and external interactions ; 12. Arabia ; 13. Central Asia before the Silk Road ; 14. Southern Siberia during the Bronze and early Iron periods; 15. Western Asia after Alexander ; 16. Western and Central Asia: Languages -- Part VIII. Europe and the Mediterranean. 17. Early Palaeolithic Europe ; 18. Europe and the Mediterranean: DNA ; 19. Upper Palaeolithic ; 20. Upper Palaeolithic imagery ; 21. Early food production in Southeastern Europe ; 22. Early food production in Southwestern Europe ; 23. Hunters, fishers and farmers of Northern Europe, 9000-3000 BCE ; 24. The Aegean ; 25. Post-Neolithic Western Europe ; 26. Later prehistory of Central and Northern Europe ; 27. Post-Neolithic of Eastern Europe ; 28. Classical World ; 29. Europe and the Mediterranean: Languages |
| Summary |
"The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. Written by a team of leading international scholars, the volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches, such as archaeolinguistics and molecular genetics and examine the essential questions of human development around the world. The volumes are organised geographically, exploring the evolution of hominins and their expansion from Africa, as well as the formation of states and development in each region of different technologies such as seafaring, metallurgy and food production. The Cambridge World Prehistory reveals a rich and complex history of the world. It will be an invaluable resource for any student or scholar of archaeology and related disciplines looking to research a particular topic, tradition, region or period within prehistory"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Series statement "Cambridge histories online" displays at Web page: http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories (viewed Aug. 5, 2016) |
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Series statement "Cambridge Histories - ancient history & classical studies" displays at Web page: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-histories (viewed Dec. 5, 2017) |
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Prehistoric peoples -- Encyclopedias
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Anthropology, Prehistoric -- Encyclopedias
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Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Encyclopedias
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Anthropology, Prehistoric
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Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Prehistoric peoples
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| Genre/Form |
encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopédies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Renfrew, Colin, 1937- editor.
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Bahn, Paul G., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781139017831 |
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1139017837 |
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