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In This section: 1) Brief Table of Contents 2) Detailed Table of Contents BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS   1. Introducing World Prehistory PART I. BEGINNINGS - 7 Million to 200,000 Years Ago 2. Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.9 Million Years Ago 3. Archaic Humans: Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens: 1.9 Million to 150,000 Years Ago PART II. THE GREAT DIASPORA: THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS: c. 200,000 Years Ago to Modern Times 4. Origins and the Diaspora Begins c. 200,000 Years Ago and Later 5. Europe and Eurasia: c. 48,000 Years Ago to 8000 B.C. 6. The First Americans: Around 14000 B.C. to Modern Times 7. After the Ice: Before 10000 B.C. to Modern Times PART III. FIRST FARMERS: c. 10000 B.C. to Modern Times 8. Agriculture and Animal Domestication 9. The Origins of Food Production in Southwest Asia 10. The First European Farmers 11. First Farmers in Egypt and Tropical Africa 12. Asia and the Pacific: Rice, Roots, and Ocean Voyages 13. The Story of Maize: Early Farmers in the Americas PART IV. OLD WORLD CIVILIZATIONS: c. 3000 B.C. to Modern Times 14. The Development of Civilization 15. Early Civilizations in Southwest Asia 16. Egypt, Nubia, and Tropical Africa 17. Early States in South and Southeast Asia 18. Early Chinese Civilization 19. Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans 20. Europe Before the Romans PART V. NATIVE AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS: Before 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1534 21. Mesoamerican Civilizations 22. Andean Civilizations      DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS   1. Introducing World Prehistory Archaeology and Prehistory The Beginnings of World Prehistory Who Needs the Past? Studying Culture and Culture Change Primary Cultural Processes Theoretical Approaches: Culture as Adaptation Theoretical Approaches: Evolutionary Ecology and Hunter-Gatherers Theoretical Approaches: People as Agents of Change   PART I. BEGINNINGS - 7 Million to 200,000 Years Ago 2. Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.9 Million Years Ago The Great Ice Age The Origins of the Human Line Molecular Biology and Human Evolution The Ecological Problems Faced by Early Hominins Fossil Evidence: 7 to 4 mya The First Australopithecines: c. 4 to 3 mya Fossil Evidence: 3 to 2.5 mya Early Homo: 2.5 to 2.0 mya Who Was the First Human? Archaeological Evidence for Early Human Behavior Plant Foraging and “Grandmothering” Toolmaking The Mind of the Earliest Humans The Development of Language Social Organization   3. Archaic Humans: Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens: 1.9 Million to 150,000 Years Ago Pleistocene Background Homo ergaster in Africa The Radiation of Homo ergaster Out of Africa: Homo erectus in Asia Moving to the North: The Settlement of Temperate Latitudes Archaic Human Technology Evidence for Behavior: Boxgrove, Schöningen, and Torralba  Language The Neanderthals A More Complex Technology  The Origins of Burial and Religious Belief Neanderthal Speech?  The Denisovans   PART II. THE GREAT DIASPORA: THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS: c. 200,000 Years Ago to Modern Times 4. Origins and the Diaspora Begins c. 200,000 Years Ago and Later Origins Out of Africa When did Modern Cognitive Skills appear? First AMH Settlement in East and Southeast Asia New Guinea and Adjacent Islands Australia African Hunter-Gatherers   5. Europe and Eurasia: c. 48,000 Years Ago to 8000 B.C. Unsuccessful Colonization Successful Colonization The Upper Pleistocene (c. 126,000 Years Ago to 8000 B.C.) Aurignacians and Their Successors (39,000 years ago to 8000 B.C.) Settling Eurasia (39,000to 15,000Years Ago) Siberia (33,000to 13,000Years Ago) Bifaces, Microblades, and the First Americans   6. The First Americans: Around 14000 B.C. to Modern Times The First Settlement of the Americas Ice Sheets and the Bering Land Bridge The First Settlement of Alaska Biological and Linguistic Evidence for the First Americans Settlement Routes: Ice-Free Corridors and Seacoasts The Paleo-Indians: Clovis and Others Big-Game Extinctions Later Hunters and Gatherers Plains Hunters The Desert West Eastern North America Specialized Foraging Societies in Central and South America Aleuts and Inuit (Eskimo)   7. After the Ice: Before 10000 B.C. to Modern Times The Holocene (After 10000 B.C.)  Coping with Environmental Variation Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe Mesolithic Complexity in Scandinavia Hunter-Gatherer Complexity Hunter-Gatherer Societies in Southwest Asia   PART III. FIRST FARMERS: c. 10000 B.C. to Modern Times 8. Agriculture and Animal Domestication Theories About the Origins of Food Production Differing Dates for Food Production Studying Early Food Production Why Did Food Production Take Hold So Late? Consequences of Food Production Nutrition and Early Food Production Herding: Domestication of Animals Plant Cultivation Technology and Domestication   9. The Origins of Food Production in Southwest Asia Climate Change and Adaptation The First Farmers The Zagros and Mesopotamia Early Farmers in Anatolia Two Stages of Farming Development   10. The First European Farmers Mesolithic Prelude The Transition to Farming in Europe Farming in Greece and Southern Europe The Spread of Agriculture into Temperate Europe Frontiers and Transitions Social Changes, Lineages, and the Individual The Introduction of the Plow Plains Farmers: Tripolye Mediterranean and Western Europe The Megaliths   11. First Farmers in Egypt and Tropical Africa Hunter-Gatherers on the Nile Agricultural Origins Along the Nile Saharan Pastoralists Early Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa   12. Asia and the Pacific: Rice, Roots, and Ocean Voyages The Origins of Rice Cultivation Early Farming in China Jomon and Early Agriculture in Japan Early Agriculture in Southeast Asia  Rice and Root Cultivation in Island Southeast Asia  Agriculture in the Pacific Islands The Lapita Cultural Complex and the Settlement of Melanesia and Western Polynesia Long-Distance Voyaging in the Pacific   13. The Story of Maize: Early Farmers in the Americas The First Plant Domestication Early Food Production in the Andes Early Farmers in Southwestern North America  Preagricultural and Agricultural Societies in Eastern North America Moundbuilder Cultures Human Settlement in the Caribbean   PART IV. OLD WORLD CIVILIZATIONS: c. 3000 B.C. to Modern Times 14. The Development of Civilization Civilization Cities Six Classic Theories of the Emergence of States Social Theories Imploding Civilizations   15. Early Civilizations in Southwest Asia Upland Villages Settlement of the Lowlands Uruk: The Mesopotamian City Sumerian Civilization Exchange on the Iranian Plateau The Widening of Political Authority The Akkadians Babylon  The Assyrians    16. Egypt, Nubia, and Tropical Africa The Origins of the Egyptian State Archaic Egypt and the Creation of the Great Culture (2920 to 2575 B.C.) The Old Kingdom and the Pyramids (c. 2575 to 2180 B.C.) The Egyptian State  The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom (2180 to 1640 B.C.) The Second Intermediate Period (1640 to 1530 B.C.) The New Kingdom (1530 to 1070 B.C.) The Late Period (1070 to 332 B.C.) Egypt and Africa Nubia: The Land of Kush Meroe and Aksum North Africa  Jenne-jeno and the Rise of West African States Farmers and Traders in Eastern and Southern Africa Europe and Africa   17. Early States in South and Southeast Asia The Roots of South Asian Civilization Highlands and Lowlands: The Kulli Complex A Rapid Transition Mature Harappan Civilization South Asia After the Harappans Southeast Asian States  The Angkor State (A.D. 802 to 1430)   18. Early Chinese Civilization The Origins of Chinese Civilization Erlitou: Xia and Shang The Warlords   19. Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans Early Towns in Anatolia Balance of Power: The Hittites The Sea Peoples and the Rise of Israel The Phoenicians The Aegean and Greece  The Minoans The Mycenaeans Greek City-States After Mycenae The Etruscans and the Romans   20. Europe Before the Romans Early Copper Working Battle Axes and Beakers The European Bronze Age  Bronze Age Warriors The Scythians and Other Steppe Peoples The First Ironworking The Hallstatt Culture La Tène Culture   PART V. NATIVE AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS: Before 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1534 21. Mesoamerican Civilizations Village Farming Preclassic Peoples in Mesoamerica The Rise of Complex Society in Oaxaca Monte Albán Teotihuacán  Maya Civilization The Ninth-Century Collapse  The Toltecs Aztec Civilization and the Spanish Conquest   22. Andean Civilizations The Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization Coastal Foundations: The Initial Period  Chavín de Huántar Paracas: Textiles and Coastal Prehistory Complex Society in the Southern Highlands: Chiripa and Pukara The Early Intermediate Period The Moche State The Middle Horizon: Tiwanaku and Wari The Late Intermediate Period: Sicán and Chimor The Late Horizon: The Inca State Amazonia The Spanish Conquest (1532 to 1534)  

About the Author :
Brian Fagan is one of the world’s leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on human prehistory. He studied archaeology and anthropology at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, and then spent seven years in sub-Saharan Africa working in museums and in monuments conservation and excavating early farming sites in Zambia and East Africa. He was one of the pioneers of multidisciplinary African history in the 1960s. From 1967 to 2003, he was professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he specialized in lecturing and writing about archaeology to wide audiences. He is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology. Brian Fagan has written several best-selling textbooks and has published several scholarly monographs on African archaeology and numerous specialized articles in national and international journals. An expert on multimedia teaching, he has received the Society for American Archaeology’s first Public Education Award for his tireless efforts on behalf of archaeology and education Brian Fagan’s other interests include bicycling, sailing, kayaking, and good food. He is married and lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and daughter, three cats (who supervise his writing), and last but not least, a minimum of seven rabbits.   Nadia Durrani is an archaeologist and writer. For much of the past decade she was the editor of Britain’s best-selling archaeology magazine, Current World Archaeology, becoming an independent editor after the arrival of her son in 2010. She has authored and edited many hundreds of articles on archaeology from every corner of the globe, contributed to dozens of books, and written two. Throughout her career she has travelled widely --from Peru to Pakistan--to report on the latest archaeological discoveries; worked as a specialist lecturer on archaeological tours to countries including Yemen and Jordan; and contributed to a range of television documentaries. Her specialist area is Arabian archaeology and, following a degree in archaeology and anthropology from Cambridge University, she took a PhD in South West Arabian archaeology from University College, London (2001). Other research interests include the archaeology of the First World War and she is a founding member of the Great War Archaeology Group. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, she lives in London with her husband, Matthew, and son Jacob ‘Caractacus’ Hillier.

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“Engaging, easy to read, and the supplements help the education process. . . it is a perfect tool for teachers to send students off to read before lectures. "   - Stephen Brighton, University of Maryland   “I've always appreciated the coverage of South and Southeast Asia. Also the different theoretical perspectives and debates.”   - Jaida Samudra, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay   “I don't think there is a better way to arrange the book. The text and material are teachable and easily translatable to lectures and presentations.”   - Steve Corbett, Johnson County Community College