The Cambridge encyclopedia of archaeology / editor, Andrew Sherratt ; foreword by Grahame Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006, editor.

Clark, Grahame, 1907-1995, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Prehistoric peoples.

Civilization, Ancient.

archaeology.

Medical Subjects:

Archaeology.

Genre:

Reference works.

Physical Description:

495 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown Publishers, 1980.

Summary:

"This is the first comprehensive review of the science of archaeology in the light of the last decade's revolutionary discoveries, discoveries which have transformed our views of our own origins and of the early history of mankind. From the two-million-year-old campsites of early man in Africa, the evidence of agriculture going back 10,000 years in Syria and New Guinea, and the traces of early Mesopotamian civilization reaching almost to India, to the spectacular finds of the third-millennium archive of Ebla and the tomb of Philip of Macedon, archaeologists have rapidly and radically extended the whole range of their inquiries. They have adapted powerful and sophisticated techniques of analysis from the physical and biological sciences: they have studied and applied relevant work from other human and social sciences - anthropology, geography, demography, economic history: they have proposed exciting new theories to reconstruct and explain the processes of cultural change that have taken man from hunter to astronaut in an instant of geological time. This volume is encyclopaedic both in time and in space, giving a global account of the emergence of the human species up to the expansion of medieval Europe. It traces the whole development of modern man, through the revolutionary changes in language, culture and technology that took place in the last Ice Age and the Postglacial period: the beginnings of agriculture that established a new relationship with the natural environment and led to the great increase in human population, and the new forms of social organization that appeared with the emergence of towns, states and empires, taking mankind to the threshold of the modern world. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the region and period, and the book has been prepared within a unified framework with the advice of a distinguished international board of editors. The maps and illustrations, many in full color, set a high standard in visual presentation. They have been specially prepared to convey as directly as possible the primary evidence of archaeology and to interpret complex information and ideas in an intelligible form. They are supplemented with many other reference aids, chronological charts, global maps, bibliographies and an index." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part one: The development of modern archaeology

Origins and growth of archaeology / David Whitehouse

Revolution in archaeology / Andrew Sherratt

Investigation in the field / Stephen Shennan

Analysis and interpretation / Ian Hodder

Economic archaeology / Robin Dennell

Historical archaeology / Daphne Nash

Recent advances and current trends / Colin Renfrew

Part two: Man the hunter

Ice Age environments / F. Alayne Street

Man and the primates / Peter Andrews

Early man / J.W.K. Harris / Handaxe makers / Derek Roe

Development of human culture / Leslie Freeman

Later Pleistocene hunters / Richard Klein

Arrival of man in Australia / Alan Thorne

Part III: The Postglacial revolution

Beginnings of agriculture in the Near East and Europe / Andrew Sherratt

Emergence of critics in the Near East / Joan Oates

Mesopotamia and Iran in the Bronze Age / P.R.S. Moorey

Egypt and the Levant in the Bronze Age / David O'Connor

Agean and western Anatolia in the Bronze Age / Peter Warren

Early agricultural communities in Europe / Andrew Sherratt

Agricultural origins in East Asia / Ian C. Glover

Early agriculture and the development of towns in India / Dilip Chakrabarti

East Asia in the Bronze Age / Don Bayard

Final stages of hunting and gathering in Africa / Ray Inskeep

Agricultural origins in Africa / C. Thurstan Shaw

IV: The early empires of the western Old World

Assyrian empire / Nicholas Postgate

Late Period Egypt and Nubia / David O'Connor

Levant in the early first millennium BC / Peter Parr

Iron Age Greece and the easter Mediterranean / Paul Cartledge

Iran under the Achaemenians and Selucids / David Stronach

Emergence of Arabia / Brian Doe

Hellenistic world / Stephen Mitchell / First-millennium Europe before the Romans / John Alexander

Western Mediterranean and the origins of Rome / T.W. Potter

Rome and its Empire in the West / T.W. Potter

Roman Empire in the East / Stephen Mitchell

V: Empires in the eastern Old World

Growth of a Chinese empire / Michael Loewe

Rise of the nomads in central Asia / Marek Zvelebil

India before and after the Mauryan empire / Romila Thapar

South-east Asia: civilizations of the tropical forests / Bennet Bronson

Imperial China and its neighbours / Denis Twitchett

Forest cultures of south and south-east Asia / Gary Preland

VI: Old empires and new forces

Parthian and Sasnian Iran / Georgina Herrmann

Byzantium: an empire under stress / Clive Foss

Expansion of the Arabs / David Whitehouse

Barbarian Europe in the first millennium / Dafydd Kidd

Rise of temperate Europe / Colin Platt

Urbanization of eastern Europe / Nikolai Dejevsky

VII: On the edge of the Old World

Northern forest cultures and the Arctic fringe / Marek Zvelebil

Prehistory of Oceania: colonization and cultural change / G.J. Irwin

Holocene Australia / G.N. Bailey

Iron Age Africa and the expansion of the Bantu / D.W. Phillipson

Early states in Africa / Peter Garlake

VIII: The New World

North America in the early Postglacial / David Baerreis

Colonization of the Arctic / Don E. Dumond

Early agriculture in the Americas / Warwick Bray

Agricultural groups in North America / James B. Griffin

Mesoamerica: from village to empire John O'Shea

Andean South America: from village to empire / Craig Morris

Tropical forest cultures of the Amazon basin / Iris Barry

IX: Pattern and process

Interpretation and synthesis-a personal view / Andrew Sheratt

Part three: Frameworks: dating and distribution

Dating and dating methods/ Richard Burleigh

Comparative chronologies / J.W. Lewthwaite and Adrew Sherratt

Chronological atlas / J.W. Lewthwaite and Andrew Sherratt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-465) and index.

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Other Format:

Online version: Cambridge encyclopedia of archaeology.

ISBN:

0517534975

9780517534977

0521229898

9780521229890

0517534875

9780517534878

0517534878

OCLC:

4036929

Online:

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