Human prehistory and the first civilizations
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording]
Number of pages: 18
ISBN-13: 9781565855892
Subjects: Ancient History; Prehistoric peoples; Ancient Civilization
Notes: In 3 containers ; 2 videodiscs in each container ; 6 thirty-minute lectures per disc. One course guide book covers all 3 parts.

Course guide Includes bibliographical references.

Lectures delivered by Professor Brian M. Fagan, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Brian M. Fagan, lecturer.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Introducing human prehistory; title: In the beginning; title: Our earliest ancestors; title: The first human diaspora; title: The first Europeans; title: The Neanderthals; title: The origins of Homo sapiens sapiens; title: The great diaspora; title: The world of the Cro-Magnons; title: Artists and mammoth hunters; title: The first Americans; title: The Paleo-Indians and afterward; title: Part II. After the Ice Age; title: The first farmers; title: Why farming?; title: The first European farmers; title: Farming in Asia and settling the Pacific; title: The story of maize; title: The origins of states and civilization; title: Sumerian civilization; title: Ancient Egyptian civilization to the Old Kingdom; title: Ancient Egypt : Middle and New Kingdoms; title: The Minoan civilization of Crete; title: The eastern Mediterranean world; title: Part III. The Harappan civilization of South Asia; title: South and Southeast Asia; title: Africa : a world of interconnectedness; title: The origins of Chinese civilization; title: China : Zhou to the Han; title: Southeast Asian civilizations; title: Pueblos and moundbuilders in North America; title: Ancient Maya civilization; title: Highland Mesoamerican civilization; title: The origins of Andean civilization; title: The Inka and their predecessors; title: Epilogue.