World prehistory : a brief introduction / Brian M. Fagan.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Fagan, Brian M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Prehistoric peoples.
• Anthropology, Prehistoric.
• Human evolution.
• Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

xix, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2002]

Contents:

• Part I Prehistory 1
• Chapter 1 Introducing World Prehistory 3
• "In the Beginning" 4
• Pseudoarchaeology 6
• Prehistory, Archaeology, and World Prehistory 7
• Major Developments in Human Prehistory 9
• Cyclical and Linear Time 10
• Written Records, Oral History, and Archaeology 14
• Studying World Prehistory 15
• Culture History, Time and Space, and "The Myth of the Ethnographic Present" 17
• Cultural Process and Past Lifeways 22
• The Mechanisms of Culture Change 24
• Culture as Adaptation 26
• Intangibles: Ideology and Interaction 30
• Part II The World of the First Humans 35
• Chapter 2 Human Origins 37
• The Great Ice Age (1.8 million to 15,000 years ago) 39
• Early Primate Evolution and Adaptation 41
• The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution (4 million to 1.5 million years ago) 44
• All Kinds of Australopithecines (3 million to 2.5 million years ago) 50
• Early Homo: Homo habilis (2.5 million to 2.0 million years ago) 52
• Who Was the First Human? 56
• The Earliest Human Technology 57
• Hunters or Scavengers? 61
• The Earliest Human Mind 63
• The Development of Language 65
• The Earliest Social Organization 66
• Chapter 3 African Exodus 68
• Ice Age Background 69
• Homo erectus (c. 1.9 million to after 200,000 years ago) 72
• The Lifeway of Homo erectus 76
• Archaic Homo sapiens (c. 400,000 to 130,000 years ago) 81
• The Neanderthals (c. 150,000 to 30,000 years ago) 82
• The Origins of Modern Humans (?c. 180,000 to 150,000 years ago) 88
• Out of Tropical Africa 93
• Part III The Birth of the Modern World 95
• Chapter 4 Diaspora 97
• The Late Ice Age World (50,000 to 15,000 years ago) 99
• The Peopling of Southeast Asia and Australia (45,000 to 15,000 years ago) 101
• Late Ice Age Europe: The Cro-Magnons (40,000 to 15,000 years ago) 103
• Hunter-gatherers in Eurasia (35,000 to 15,000 years ago) 109
• East Asia (35,000 to 15,000 years ago) 112
• Early Human Settlement of Siberia (?before 20,000 to 15,000 years ago) 114
• The First Americans (?before 15,000 years ago to 11,000 B.C.) 114
• The Clovis People (c. 11,200 to 11,000 B.C.) 118
• Chapter 5 The Origins of Food Production 121
• The Holocene (after 10,000 B.C.) 125
• Changes in Forager Societies 125
• Social Complexity among Foragers 127
• Theories of Farming Origins 129
• The Recovery Revolution 130
• Multicausal Theories 131
• The Consequences of Food Production 134
• Nutrition and Early Food Production 139
• Chapter 6 The Earliest Farmers 141
• Domesticating Animals 143
• Domesticating Wheat and Barley 144
• Southwest Asian Farmers (c. 10,000 to 5000 B.C.) 146
• Early Egyptian and African Farmers (earlier than 6000 B.C. to 1000 B.C.) 149
• European Farmers (c. 6500 to 3000 B.C.) 151
• Early Agriculture in Asia (before 6000 B.C.) 154
• Early American Agriculture (8000 B.C. onward) 158
• Chapter 7 Chiefs and Chiefdoms 165
• Reciprocity and "Big Men" 167
• Navigators and Chiefs in the Pacific (2000 B.C. to modern times) 169
• The American Southwest (300 B.C. to modern times) 173
• Moundbuilders in Eastern North America (2000 B.C. to A.D. 1650) 180
• Part IV Early Civilizations 189
• Chapter 8 State-Organized Societies 191
• What Is a State-Organized Society? 192
• Cities 194
• Theories of the Origins of States 196
• Social Approaches: Power in Three Domains 202
• People as Agents of Change 206
• The Collapse of Civilizations 207
• Chapter 9 Mesopotamia and the Eastern Mediterranean World 210
• Origins (5500 to 3000 B.C.) 212
• Sumerian Civilization (c. 3100 to 2334 B.C.) 218
• Akkadians and Babylonians (2334 to 1650 B.C.) 221
• Hittites and Sea Traders (1650 to 1200 B.C.) 222
• Minoans and Mycenaeans (1900 to 1200 B.C.) 224
• Sea Peoples and Phoenicians (1200 to 800 B.C.) 229
• Assyrians and Babylonians (900 to 539 B.C.) 229
• Chapter 10 Egypt and Africa 232
• Predynastic Egypt: Ancient Monopoly? (5000 to 3100 B.C.) 233
• Dynastic Egyptian Civilization (c. 3000 to 30 B.C.) 237
• Egypt and Afrocentrism 247
• Nubia: The Land of Kush (3000 to 633 B.C.) 247
• Meroe and Aksum 249
• Ancient African Kingdoms 251
• Chapter 11 South, Southeast, and East Asia 257
• South Asia: The Harappan Civilization (c. 2700 to 1700 B.C.) 258
• South Asia after the Harappans (1700 to 180 B.C.) 264
• The Origins of Chinese Civilization (2600 to 1100 B.C.) 264
• The War Lords (1100 to 221 B.C.) 268
• Southeast Asian Civilization (A.D. 1 to 1500) 270
• Chapter 12 Lowland Mesoamerica 276
• Beginnings: Preclassic Peoples in the Lowlands (2000 B.C. to A.D. 300) 277
• The Olmec (1500 B.C. to 500 B.C.) 279
• Classic Maya Civilization (A.D. 300 to 900) 285
• The Classic Maya Collapse 290
• Postclassic Maya Civilization (A.D. 900 to 1517) 293
• Chapter 13 Highland Mesoamerica 297
• The Rise of Highland Civilization: The Valley of Oaxaca (2000 to 500 B.C.) 298
• Monte Alban (500 B.C. to A.D. 750) 300
• Valley of Mexico: Teotihuacan (200 B.C. to A.D. 750) 301
• The Toltecs (A.D. 650 to 1200) 305
• Aztec Civilization (A.D. 1200 to 1521) 306
• Chapter 14 Andean Civilizations 315
• The Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization 318
• Coastal Foundations (2500 to 900 B.C.) 319
• The Early Horizon and Chavin de Huantar (900 to 200 B.C.) 320
• The Initial Period 321
• The Moche State (200 B.C. to A.D. 700) 326
• The Middle Horizon: Tiwanaku and Wari (A.D. 600 to 1000) 328
• The Late Intermediate Period: Sican and Chimu (A.D. 700 to 1460) 330
• The Late Horizon: The Inca State (A.D. 1476 to 1534) 331
• The Spanish Conquest (A.D. 1532 to 1534) 336.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-362) and index.

ISBN:

0130404632

OCLC:

46456299