Civilization
Subtitle: readings from Scientific American
By: with introductions by Brian M. Fagan.
Contributors: Fagan, Brian M.
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Published: 1979
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient.; Cities and towns, Ancient.
Other titles: Scientific American.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [151]-153.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Adams. The origin of cities.; title: Kramer. The Sumerians.; title: Lamberg-Karlovsky and Lamberg-Karlovsky. An early city in Iran.; title: Millon. Teotihuacán.; title: Maddin, Muhly, and Wheeler. How the Iron Age began.; title: Piggott. The beginnings of wheeled transport.; title: Humphrey and Pedley. Roman Carthage.; title: Biddle. The archaeology of Winchester.; title: Hammond. The planning of a Maya ceremonial center.; title: Sjoberg. The origin and evolution of cities.; title: Brown. Human food production as a process in the biosphere.; title: Nef. An early energy crisis and its consequences.; title: Davis. The migrations of human populations.