Courses toward urban life
Subtitle: archeological considerations of some cultural alternates.
By: Edited by Robert J. Braidwood and Gordon R. Willey.
Contributors: Willey, Gordon Randolph, 1913- joint ed.; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Series: Viking Fund publications in anthropology,; no. 32
Publisher: Aldine Pub. Co.
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"The contents of this volume result from a symposium held at the European headquarters of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, July 3-11, 1960."
--The Lower Rhine Basin, by H.T. Waterbolk.--Northern continental Europe, by H. Schwabedissen.--The temperate zone of continental Asia, by A.P. Okladnikov.--Eastern North America, by J.R. Caldwell.--Northern Europe, by C.-A. Moberg.--Conclusions and afterthoughts, by R.J. Braidwood and G.R. Willey.
Table of contents: title: Africa south of the Sahara, by J.D. Clark.; title: The intermediate area, Amazonia, and the Caribbean area, by I. Rouse.; title: India, by H.D. Sankalia.; title: Mesoamerica, by G.R. Willey.; title: The greater American Southwest, by E.W. Haury.; title: Southwestern Asia beyond the lands of the Mediterranean littoral, by R.J. Braidwood and B. Howe.; title: Palestine, Syria, Cilicia, by J. Perrot.; title: The central Andes, by D. Collier.; title: China, by Kwang-chih Chang.; title: The first ground-plan of an Upper Paleolithic loess settlement in Middle Europe and its meaning, by B. Klíma.; title: Southern Middle Europe and Southeastern Europe, by R. Pittioni.