A brief history of the human race:
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2003
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XXIV, 385 S. Ill., Kt. |
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| adam_text | Titel: A brief history of the human race
Autor: Cook, Michael A.
Jahr: 2003
CONTENTS
List of Maps xv
List of Figures xvii
Preface xix
TART ONE
WHV IS HISTORY THE WAV IT IS?
The Palaeolithic Background 3
I. Why Did History Happen When It Did? 3
II. Genetics and the Origins of the
Human Race 9
III. Stone Tools 14
The Neolithic Revolution 19
I. Why Has the Making of History
Been a Runaway Process? 19
II. The Genetics of Domesticated
Plants and Animals 30
III. Pottery 34
3. The Emergence op Civilization 38
I. Did Humans Make the Only Kind
of History They Could? 38
II. Writing 44
III. Kingship 47
xii contents
PART TWO
THE SMALLER CONTINENTS
4. Australia 55
I. A Continent of Hunter-Gatherers 55
II. Getting Married among the
Aranda 63
III. Flaked Points and Other Novelties 69
The Americas 75
I. From Alaska to the Tierra
del Fuego 75
II. Mesoamerican Calendars 88
III. The Quipu 94
Africa 99
I. The African Cultural Gradient 99
II. The Age-group Systems of
East Africa 112
III. Shabtis and the Egyptian Way
of Death 118
PART THREE
THE EURASIAN LANDMASS
The Ancient Near East 125
I. The Life and Death of the
World s Oldest Civilization 125
II. Downsizing the Pantheon 136
III. Archaism 142
contents xiii
8. India 147
I. Why India Was Not Just a
Subcontinent 147
II. The Nambudiri Brahmins of Kerala 164
III. Of Gods and Courtesans 171
9. China 175
I. The Making of China 175
II. Keeping in Touch with the
Ancestors 194
III. Shang Bronzes: What s in a Name? 200
10. The Ancient Mediterranean World 205
I. Frogs around a Pool 205
II. The Background to Athenian
Democracy 222
III. Attic Black- and Red-Figure 227
11. Western Europe 234
I. An Unlikely Corner of the World? 234
II. The Monstrous Regiment of Women 251
III. Jupiter s Paramours 258
PART FOUR
TOWARD ONE WORLD?
12. Islamic Civilization 267
f I. From Sea to Shining Sea 267
XIV contents
II. Muslim Ethnography 287
III. The Muslim Calendar 290
13. The European Expansion 295
I. What the Europeans Did 295
II. How Some Non-Europeans
Responded 308
III. The Sniffing Habit 320
14. The Modern World 325
I. Haves and Have-nots 325
II. The Lofty Towers 342
III. Jupiter s Paramours Again 348
Conclusion 354
Further Reading 360
Credits 369
Index 373
LIST OF MAPS
Map 1: Major regions of the world. viii-ix
Map 2: Australia. 61
Map 3: The Americas. 77
Map 4: Africa. 101
Map 5: The Near East. 128-29
Map 6: India. 150-51
Map 7: Eastern Asia. 178
Map 8: The Mediterranean world. 208-9
Map 9a: Western and Northern Europe:
Physical. 236-37
Map 9b: Western and Northern Europe:
Natural vegetation. 238-39
Map 10: The Islamic world around 1500. 282-83
Map 11: Maritime expansions and voyages
from Eurasia. 296-97
LIST OF FICU RES
Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10
Fig. 11
Fig. 12
Fig. 13
Fig. 14
Fig. 15
Fig. 16
Fig. 17:
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Fig. 21
Three objects from ancient Greece.
Recently excavated ruins.
Data from the Greenland ice core.
A New Guinea stone worker quarrying flakes.
New Guinea stone workers shaping their flakes.
A Predynastic Egyptian flint knife with two
Palaeolithic hand axes.
Wild and domesticated einkorn wheat.
Potsherds of various dates from an early site
in the Near East.
Bird Jaguar attending to a captive.
The Narmer Palette.
Australian stone tools of the Pleistocene
and later Holocene.
A QUIPU.
A typical shabti.
A tentative reconstruction of houses
at the Neolithic settlement of Catal HCyuk.
a statue originally from mar!.
A CHIA OF THE EARLY SHANG PERIOD, WITH SKETCHES
OF SEVERAL TYPES OF BRONZE VESSEL MADE IN
SHANG TIMES.
AN ENTRY ON A TING FROM A SUNG CATALOG OF
BRONZES.
Four Attic pots.
Penelope at her loom.
An Attic red-figure wine cup.
Sherds from an Attic red-figure wine cup
and pot.
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LIST OF FIGURES
Fig. 22: The Galilean satf.li.itfs of Jupiter as
observed by galileo.
Fig. 23: Illustrations from an early folrteenth-
century Persian history of the Franks and
a parallel history of China.
Fig. 24: Illustration from thf.Japanf.se novel
The M-tx Who Spest His Life is Ijox e.
Fig. 25: Sniffing gear from South America.
Fig. 26: Sniffing gear from Eurasia.
Fig. 27: Nicotine delivery systems of the
early twenty-first century from France,
South America, and China.
Fig. 28: Late twentieth-century mews of the larger
Jovian satellites.
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