Автор: Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2014
ISBN: 0521119936 / 9780521119931
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 2049
Размер: 270 mb
Язык: English
Written by a team of leading international scholars, the volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches, such as archaeolinguistics and molecular genetics, and examine the essential questions of human development around the world. The volumes are organized geographically, exploring the evolution of hominins and their expansion from Africa, as well as the formation of states and development in each region of different technologies such as seafaring, metallurgy, and food production. The Cambridge World Prehistory reveals a rich and complex history of the world. It will be an invaluable resource for any student or scholar of archaeology and related disciplines looking to research a particular topic, tradition, region, or period within prehistory.