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The Cambridge ancient history. Vol. 1. Pt. 1, Prolegomena and prehistory

The first part of the first volume of the 'Cambridge Ancient History Series.'
Print Book, English, 1970
Cambridge University Press, London, 1970
xxii, 758 pages, 10 folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (1 color) ; 24 cm
9780521070515, 9780521298216, 0521070511, 0521298210
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List of maps; List of tables; List of text-figures; Preface; 1. The geological ages D. L. Linton, and F. Moseley; 2. Physical conditions in eastern europe, western asia and egypt before the period of agricultural and urban settlement K. W. Butzer; 3a. Primitive man in egypt, western asia and eurpoe in palaeolithic times Dorothy A. E. Garrod; 3b. In mesolithic times J. G. D. Clark; 4. The evidence of language W. F. Albright and T. O. Lambdin; 5. The earliest populations of man in europe, western asia and northern Africa D. R. Hughes and D. R. Brothwell; 6. Chronology I. Egypt - to the end of the twentieth dynasty William C. Hayes; II. Ancient Western Asia M. B. Rowton; III. The aegean bronze age Frank H. Stubbings; 7. (a) The earliest settlements in western asia from the ninth to the end of the fifth millennium BC (b) Anatolia before 4000 BC J. Mellaart; 8. The development of cities from al - 'ubaid to the end of uruk 5' Max E. L. Mallowan; 9. (a) Predynastic egypt Elise J. Baumgartel (b) Palestine during the neolithic and chalcolithic periods R. de vaux, O. P. (c) Cyprus in the neolithic and chalcolithic periods H. W. Catling; 10. The stone age in the aegean S. S. Weinberg; Bibliographies; Index to maps; General index.
Individual chapters have already appeared as fascicles, 1961-1968