(eBook PDF) Archaeology and Humanity’s Story: A Brief Introduction to World Prehistory 2nd Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190930128
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190930127
• Author: Deborah I. Olszewski

This student-friendly textbook introduces the archaeological past from approximately seven million years ago through later politically complex societies. Now fully updated in its second edition, Archaeology and Humanity’s Story: A Brief Introduction to World Prehistory does not attempt to discuss every archaeologically important site and development in prehistory and early history. Rather, it presents key issues from earlier prehistory and then organizes the chapters on politically complex societies using a similar framework. This allows students to easily compare and contrast different geographical regions. Each of these chapters also highlights a specific case study in which similar themes are examined, such as the written word; resource networks, trade, and exchange; social life; ritual and religion; and warfare and violence. Each chapter includes several sidebar boxes, a timeline showing the chronology relevant to that chapter, and “The Big Picture,” “Peopling the Past,” and “Further Reflections” features.

Table of contents:

PART 1: THE BASICS OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Chapter 1: Acquiring and Interpreting Data in Archaeology

PART 2: PREHISTORY BEFORE POLITICAL COMPLEXITY

Chapter 2: Humanity’s Roots

Chapter 3: Becoming Human

Chapter 4: A World of Modern Humans

Chapter 5: Hunting, Gathering, Foraging

PART 3: ON THE THRESHOLD OF POLITICAL COMPLEXITY

Chapter 6: Prehistoric Europe North of the Mediterranean

Chapter 7: The North American Southwest

Chapter 8: Eastern North America

Chapter 9: Early Dynastic Mesopotamia

Chapter 10: Pharaonic State and Old Kingdom Egypt

Chapter 11: Shang China

Chapter 12: The Indus Valley

Chapter 13: Mesoamerica, the Classic Maya, and the Aztec Empire

Chapter 14: Andean South America and the Inka Empire

Chapter 15: Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe in Africa

PART 5: EPILOGUE

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