World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction 9th Edition – Ebook PDF Version – Digital Instant Dowload.

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1138190322
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1138190320
• Author: Brian M. Fagan

This popular introductory textbook provides an overview of more than 3 million years of human prehistory. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, this engaging volume tells the story of humanity from our beginnings in tropical Africa up to the advent of the world’s first urban civilizations. A truly global account, World Prehistory surveys the latest advances in the study of human origins and describes the great diaspora of modern humans in the millennia which followed as they settled Europe, Asia and the Americas. Later chapters consider seminal milestones in prehistory: the origins of food production, the colonization of the offshore Pacific and the development of the first more complex human societies based, for the most part, on agriculture and stock raising. Finally, Fagan and Durrani examine the prevailing theories regarding early state-organized societies and the often flamboyant, usually volatile, pre-industrial civilizations which developed in the Old World and the Americas.

Table contents:

PART I Prehistory

Chapter 1 Introducing World Prehistory

PART II The World of the First Humans

Chapter 2 Human Origins

Chapter 3 African Exodus

PART III The Birth of the Modern World

Chapter 4 Diaspora

Chapter 5 The Origins of Food Production

Chapter 6 The Earliest Farmers

Chapter 7 Chiefs and Chiefdoms

PART IV Early Civilizations

Chapter 8 State-Organized Societies

Chapter 9 Mesopotamia and the Eastern Mediterranean World

Chapter 10 Egypt and Africa

Chapter 11 South, Southeast, and East Asia

Chapter 12 Lowland Mesoamerica

Chapter 13 Highland Mesoamerica

Chapter 14 Andean Civilizations