World prehistory and archaeology : pathways through time /
Chazan, Michael.
Boston, Mass. ; London : Prentice Hall,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
pt. 1. The past is a foreign country; getting from here to there -- Getting started in archaeology -- Putting the picture together -- pt. 2. Human evolution -- Early hominins -- From Homo erectus to Neanderthals -- The origin of modern humans -- The peopling of Australia and the New World -- pt. 3. Perspectives on agriculture -- Towers, villages, and longhouses -- Mounds and maize -- A feast of diversity -- pt. 4. The development of social complexity -- Complexity without the state -- Cities and pyramids : early states of Mesopotamia and Egypt -- Enigmas and diversity : early states in Europe and Asia -- From city to empire : social complexity in Mesoamerica -- Bringing the four parts together : states and empire in the Andes -- Epilogue: Bringing it back home.
Prehistoric peoples.
Human evolution.
Anthropology, Prehistoric.
Social archaeology.
Archaeology.