Ancient Preludes 3rd

Résumé du livre

Contents: Part I -- How Can We Know of Prehistory: Introduction to the Study of the Past; Ancient Tools, Fossils, and the Rise of Scientific Prehistory; Establishing Relative Sequences of Ancient Events; Absolute or Chronometric Dating; Basic Field Methods in Ancient Studies.; Part II -- Pre-History: Humankind in Deep Time: Deep Time and Evolution; Hominid Evolution in the Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs; The Late Pleistocene Epoch in the Old World; The Late Pleistocene Epoch in the New World; The Holocene Epoch and the Mesolithic Interlude.; Part III -- Precludes to the Present: The Origins of Agriculture; The Rise of Civilisation in the Old World: The Example of Egypt; The Rise of Civilisation in the New World.