ANTH copy 39088009326752 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Library of John C. Ewers.
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
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." -- Book jacket
