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The dawn of civilization; the first world survey of human cultures in early times. / Texts by Grahame Clark [and others]
LIBRA CB301 .P5 1961
Available from offsite location
LIBRA CB301 .P5 1961
Available from offsite location
Van Pelt Library CB301 .P5 1961
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piggott, Stuart, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 403 pages : illustrations (part color) maps (part color) diagrams ; 36 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1961]
- Summary:
- Deliberately planned as a co-operative inquiry into the human past. What, if anything, can be said in general about the achievements and failures of man before history, takes up the Tale? We can perceive the history of technology, making and doing as expressed in material objects.
- Includes information about early hunters and gatherers, the great wall of Jericho, Mesopotamia and Iran, ancient Egypt, sea peoples of the Levant, Phoenician traders, Anatolia, Aegean before the Greeks, Palace of Minos, Ganges, Persians, Great Wall of China, Angkor Wat, southeast Asia, nomads of the Steppes, Celts, Mayans and Incas.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 389-391.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: N. Burt.
- OCLC:
- 233199
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