World prehistory : the basics / Brian M. Fagan and Nadia Durrani.
"World Prehistory: The Basics tells the compelling story of human prehistory, from our African origins to the spectacular pre-industrial civilizations and cities of the more recent past. Written in a non-technical style by two archaeologists and experienced writers about the past, the story beg...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2022.
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Table of 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.