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World prehistory : the basics / Brian M. Fagan and Nadia Durrani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fagan, Brian M., author.
- Durrani, Nadia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Brian M. Fagan is one of the world's leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory. He is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of numerous general books on archaeology. Nadia Durrani is a Cambridge University-trained archaeologist and writer, with a PhD from University College, London in Arabian archaeology. She is former editor of Britain's best-selling archaeology magazine, Current World Archaeology and has authored and edited many articles and books on archaeology from every corner of the world.
- Contents:
- Beginnings (6 to 2 Ma)
- Out of Africa (2 Ma and later)
- Enter Homo sapiens (300,000 years ago and later)
- Modern humans in the North (50,000 to 12,000 years ago)
- After the ice (15,000 years ago and later)
- Farmers and herders (c. 12,000 years ago and later)
- Villages, towns, and chiefs (after about 10,000 years ago)
- Sumerians and Assyrians (c. 3100 to 612 BCE)
- By Nile and Indus (c. 3100 to 30 BCE)
- China and Southeast Asia (after 5250 BCE to 15th century CE)
- Mesoamerica (c. 1500 BCE to 1532 CE)
- Andean civilizations (3000 BCE to 1532 CE)
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fagan, Brian M. World prehistory
- ISBN:
- 9781003177326
- 1003177328
- 9781000466676
- 1000466671
- 9781000466799
- 1000466795
- Publisher Number:
- 40030883995
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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