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Summary: This volume covers the emergence and the earliest history of humanity. The remains of the 3 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and christened Lucy, show that the first human beings developed in Africa. The invention of writing and the founding of great unified states 5,000 years ago mark the end of this volume. Forty-nine authors from 31 countries specializing in all the necessary disciplines (archaeology, anthropology, geology, etc.) have helped to provide this overall view of the human adventure.
Foreword
General Introduction The International Commission Series list List of figures List of maps List of plates List of tables The authors Acknowledgements
Introduction to Volume 1 Part 1 : From anthropogenesis to the beginnings of food production A Anthropogenesis and the period of Homo habilis and Homo erectus
1. Anthropogenesis: an overview
2. The period of Homo habilis and
Homo erectus: an overview
3. Africa during the Lower Palaeolithic
and the first settlements
4. Europe: Lower and Middle Pleistocene
archaeology
5. Western Asia in the period of Homo
habilis and Homo erectus
6. Southern Asia in the period of
Homo habilis and Homo erectus
7. Cha in the period of Homo
habilis and Homo erectus
8. Indonesia in the period of Homo
habilis and Homo erectus B. The period of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and contemporaries
9. Physical anthropology of the Neanderthalers
and their contemporaries: an overview
10. Archaeology of the Neanderthalers
and their contemporaries: an overview
11. Africa in the period of Homo
Sapiens neanderthalensis and
contemporaries
12. Europe (excluding the former USSR)
in the period of Homo Sapiens
neanderthalensis and contemporaries
13. The territory of the former USSR
during the Middle Palaeolithic
14. Western Asia during the Middle
Palaeolithic
15. Indonesia in the period of Homo
habilis and Homo erectus
16. China in the period of Homo
Sapiens neanderthalensis and
contemporaries
17. Indonesia in the period of Homo Sapiens
neanderthalensis and contemporaries C The period of Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Modern humans) to the beginnings of food production
18. The period Homo Sapiens Sapiens
to the beginnings of food production: an overview
(excluding art)
19. The origins of art: an overview
20. Africa from the appearance of
Homo Sapiens Sapiens to the beginnings of
food production
21. Europe during the Upper Palaeolithic
and Mesolithic
22. The territory of the former USSR
during the Upper Palaeolithic
23. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic art in
Europe
24. Western Asia from the end of the
Middle Palaeolithic to the beginnings of food
production
25. South Asia in the period of Homo
Sapiens Sapiens up to the beginnings of food
production (Upper Palaeolithic and
Mesolithic)
26. China in the period of Homo
Sapiens Sapiens up to the beginnings of food
production
27. South-east Asia and Japan in the
period of Homo Sapiens Sapiens up to the
beginnings of food production
28. Australia and New Guinea in the period
of Homo Sapiens Sapiens up to about 5,000 years
ago
29. The origins of humanity in America
30. Prehistory of North America
31. Mexico and Central America from the
arrival of humans to the beginnings of food
production
32. Central America, the Caribbean,
northern South America and the Amazon: the way of
life of the ancient hunters
33. Prehistory of the non-Andean region of
South America (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and
Argentina, 31,000-5,000 years ago)
34. The Equatorial and tropical Andes from
the arrival of humans to the beginnings of food
production
35. The western part of South America
(southern Peru, Bolivia, north-west Argentina and
Chile) during the Stone Age Part II : From the beginnings of food production to the first states
36. From the beginnings of food production
to the first states: an overview
37. Plant domestication: an overview
38. Domestication of animals from the
beginnings of food production up to about 5,000
years ago: an overview
39. Late prehistory of Egypt
40. Africa (excluding Egypt) from the
beginnings of food production up to about 5,000
years ago
41. Western Asia during the Neolithic and
the Chalcolithic (about 12,000 - 5,000 years
ago)
42. Prehistory of the Arabian
Peninsula
43. Southern Asia during the Neolithic
and to the beginnings of the Bronze Age
44. Central and northern Asia during the
Neolithic
45. South-east Asia and Korea from the
beginnings of food production to the first
states
46. China during the Neolithic
47. Europe during the Neolithic
48. The Aegean during the Neolithic
49. Western Mediterranean cultures during
the Neolithic
50. The Balkan peninsula and south-east
Europe during the Neolithic
51. Central Europe during the
Neolithic
52. The European part of the former USSR
during the Neolithic and the Chalcolithic
53. Atlantic Europe during the
Neolithic
54. The north European lowlands: Neolithic
acculturation
55. Megalithic monuments of Europe
56. Mining in Europe during the Neolithic
and the Chalcolithic
57. Mexico and Central America: incipient
food production
58. Central America, the Caribbean,
northern South America and the Amazon: the
beginnings of food production
59. The Equatorial and tropical Andes from
the beginnings of food production up to 5,000
years ago
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