People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory 14th Edition, (Ebook PDF) – Digital Instant Dowload.
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0205968023
- ISBN-13 : 978-0205968022
- Author: Brian M. Fagan
Understand major developments of human prehistory People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory 14/e, provides an exciting journey though the 7-million-year-old panorama of humankind’s past. This internationally renowned text provides the only truly global account of human prehistory from the earliest times through the earliest civilizations. Written in an accessible way for beginning students, People of the Earth shows how today’s diverse humanity developed biologically and culturally over millions of years against a background of constant climatic change.
Table contents:
PART I BEGINNINGS: 7 Million to 30,000 Years Ago; Chapter 2 Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.89 Million Years ago; Chapter 3 Archaic Humans: 1.9 Million to 30,000 Years Ago;
PART II THE GREAT DIASPORA: THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS (c. 350,000 Years Ago to Modern Times); Chapter 4 Origins and the Diaspora Begins (c. 350,000 Years Ago and later); Chapter 5 Europe and Eurasia (c. 50,000 to 10,000 Years Ago); Chapter 6 The First Americans (?c. 23,000 years ago to Modern Times); Chapter 7 After the Ice (Before 10000 BC to Modern Times);
PART III FIRST FARMERS (c. 10,000 BC TO MODERN TIMES); Chapter 8 Agriculture and Animal Domestication; Chapter 9 The Origins of Food Production in Southwest Asia Climate Change and Adaptation; Chapter 10 The First European Farmers; Chapter 11 First Farmers in Egypt and Tropical Africa; Chapter 12 Asia and the Pacific: Rice, Roots, and Ocean Voyages; Chapter 13 The Story of Maize: Early Farmers in the Americas;
PART IV OLD WORLD STATES (c. 3000 BC TO MODERN TIMES); Chapter 14 The Development of States; Chapter 15 Early States in Southwest Asia; Chapter 16 Egypt, Nubia, and Tropical Africa; Chapter 17 Early States in South and Southeast Asia; Chapter 18 Early Chinese States; Chapter 19 Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans; Chapter 20 Europe Before the Romans;
PART V NATIVE AMERICAN STATES (BEFORE 2000 BC TO AD 1534); Chapter 21 Mesoamerican States; Chapter 22 Andean States; Glossary of Technical Terms; Bibliography of World Prehistory; Credits; Index.