Understanding Early Civilizations
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Understanding Early Civilizations
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Author : Bruce G. Trigger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-05-05
Understanding Early Civilizations written by Bruce G. Trigger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-05 with History categories.
This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic systems, religion, and culture. Many of this study's findings are surprising and provocative. Agricultural systems, technologies, and economic behaviour turn out to have been far more diverse than was expected. These findings and many others challenge not only current understandings of early civilizations but also the theoretical foundations of modern archaeology and anthropology. The key to understanding early civilizations lies not in their historical connections but in what they can tell us about similarities and differences in human behaviour.
Early Civilizations
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Author : Bruce G. Trigger
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 1993
Early Civilizations written by Bruce G. Trigger and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
"An important scholarly contribution not only to the study of early civilizations, but also to archaeological theory. . . . It should be required reading for any course on ancient civilization." --Kathryn A. Bard, Journal of Field Archaeology
What Makes Civilization
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Author : D. Wengrow
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
What Makes Civilization written by D. Wengrow and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
A vivid new account of the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia where many of the foundations of modern life were laid
Epics Of Early Civilization
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Author : Michael Kerrigan
language : en
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Release Date : 1998
Epics Of Early Civilization written by Michael Kerrigan and has been published by Time Life Medical this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
For centuries, the epics, legends and myths of Mesopotamia's ancient civilization lay buried under the desert sands, along with great cities like Babylon, Nineveh, Ur, and Ashur, waiting for the day when archaeologists would reveal them to the modern world. These myths represent some of the earliest literature ever found. Peopled with characters like the goddess Ishtar and the warrior-king Gilgamesh, they are filled with universal themes that resonate even today.
The Dawn Of Everything
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Author : David Graeber
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-11-09
The Dawn Of Everything written by David Graeber and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Social Science categories.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
Early Civilizations Of Southeast Asia
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Author : Dougald J. W. O'Reilly
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2007
Early Civilizations Of Southeast Asia written by Dougald J. W. O'Reilly and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Using the archaeological record, O'Reilly traces the rise of the state in Southeast Asia in a general synthesis.
First Civilizations
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Author : Robert Chadwick
language : en
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Release Date : 2005
First Civilizations written by Robert Chadwick and has been published by Equinox Publishing Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
First Civilizations is the second edition of a popular student text first published in 1996 in Montreal by Les Editions Champ Fleury. This much updated and expanded edition provides an introductory overview of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. It was conceived primarily for students who have little or no knowledge of ancient history or archaeology. The book begins with the role of history and archaeology in understanding the past, and continues with the origins of agriculture and the formation of the Sumerian city-states in Mesopotamia. Three subsequent chapters concentrate on Assyrian and Babylonian history and culture. The second half of the book focuses on Egypt, begining with the physical environment of the Nile, the formation of the Egyptian state and the Old Kingdom. Subsequent chapters discuss the Middle Kingdom, the Hyksos period, and the 18th Dynasty, with space devoted to Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, the Ramesside period. The text ends with the Persian conquest of Mesopotamia and Egypt. First Civilizations also contains sections on astronomy, medicine, architecture, eschatology, religion, burial practices and mummification, and discusses the myths of Gilgamesh, Isis and Osiris. Each chapter has a basic bibliography which emphasizes English language encyclopedias, books and journals specializing in the ancient Near East.
Mesopotamia
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Author : Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2010-08-15
Mesopotamia written by Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Presents an introduction to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, from the earliest rise of the Sumerians to the seventh century C.E. Sasanian period, discussing the history, government, literature, religion, art, and architecture of each era.
Myths Of The Archaic State
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Author : Norman Yoffee
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-13
Myths Of The Archaic State written by Norman Yoffee and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-13 with History categories.
In this ground-breaking work, Norman Yoffee shatters the prevailing myths underpinning our understanding of the evolution of early civilisations. He counters the emphasis in traditional scholarship on the rule of 'godly' and despotic male leaders and challenges the conventional view that early states were uniformly constituted bureaucratic and regional entities. Instead, by illuminating the role of slaves and soldiers, priests and priestesses, peasants and prostitutes, merchants and craftsmen, Yoffee depicts an evolutionary process centred on the concerns of everyday life. Drawing on evidence from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica, the author explores the variety of trajectories followed by ancient states, from birth to collapse, and explores the social processes that shape any account of the human past. This book offers a bold new interpretation of social evolutionary theory, and as such it is essential reading for any student or scholar with an interest in the emergence of complex society.
Ancient Civilizations And The Bible
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Author : Diana Waring
language : en
Publisher: Answers in Genesis
Release Date : 2008-09-01
Ancient Civilizations And The Bible written by Diana Waring and has been published by Answers in Genesis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Civilization categories.
In this panorama of world history from 4004 BC to AD 29, you will explore creation, the Flood, the Tower of Babel, and the rise of civilizations from Mesopotamia to Rome. You will see God's purposes worked out through His chosen people, Israel, culminating in the birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ.