ISBN:
0-521-29178-X
,
978-0-521-29178-1
,
0-521-21506-4
,
978-0-521-21506-0
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 554 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
an illustrated third edition
Keywords:
Prähistorie
Description / Table of Contents:
List of tables, Acknowledgements, Preface -- Early Prehistory -- Evolution of man as an organism -- Environmental change -- Palaeolithic hunters and foragers -- Beginnings of Civilization in South-West Asia -- Background -- The transition: 9000-6000 B. C. -- Neolithic/Charcolithic settlement -- Emergence of civilization in south Mesopotamia -- Civilizations of the Highlands -- Foundations of European Civilization: The Stone Age -- Upper Palaeolithic hunters and artists -- Mesolithic hunter-fishers -- Late Stone Age farmers -- Farmers and hunter-fishers -- Europe: From Metallurgy to Civilization -- Early metallurgy -- Minoan-Mycenaean civilization -- The Bronze Age in temperate Europe -- Antecedents of classical Greece -- The barbarian world in the pre-roman Iron Age -- Antecendents and expansion of Roman civilization -- The Iron Age in northern Europe -- Christianity and the end of European prehistory -- The African Achievement -- The Stone Age -- Ancient Egyptian civilization -- The opening up of sub-Saharan Africa -- The Indian Sub-Continent -- Early prehistory -- Later prehistory -- Protohistory -- East Asia -- China -- Japan -- South-east Asia -- North and Middle America -- Late Pleistocene settlement -- Middle American sequence -- North America -- Temperate zone -- Arctic zone -- South America -- The first settlers: Andean zone -- Intermediate zone: marginal territories -- Australia and Oceania -- Australia -- Oceania -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 510-533
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