People of the earth
Subtitle: an introduction to world prehistory
By: Brian M. Fagan.
Edition: 13th ed.
Publisher: Prentice Hall/Pearson
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780205735679
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples; Civilization, Ancient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1: Beginnings : 7 million to 40,000 years ago; title: Human origins: 7 million to 1.9 million years ago; title: Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens : 1.9 million to 40,000 years ago; title: 2: The great diaspora: the spread of modern humans : 45,000 years ago to modern times; title: Europe and Eurasia: c. 40,000 to 8000 B.C.; title: The first Americans: ?14,000 B.C. to modern times; title: Africans and Australians: 45,000 years ago to modern times; title: Intensification and complexity: before 10,000 B.C. to modern times; title: 3: First farmers : c. 10,000 B.C. to modern times; title: Agriculture and animal domestication; title: The origins of food production to Southwest Asia; title: The first European farmers; title: First farmers in Egypt and tropical Africa; title: Asia and the Pacific: rice, roots, and ocean voyages; title: The story of maize: early farmers in the Americas; title: 4: Old world civilizations : c. 3000 B.C. to modern times; title: The development of civilization; title: Early civilizations in Southwest Asia; title: Egypt, Nubia, and Africa; title: Early states in South and Southeast Asia; title: Early Chinese civilization; title: Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans; title: Europe before the Romans; title: 5: Native American civilizations : before 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1534; title: Mesoamerican civilizations; title: Andean civilizations.