Renfrew C., Bahn P. (eds). The Cambridge World Prehistory. Volume 1. Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific

Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 690 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02377-2.The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. 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 organised 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.Introduction (Colin Renfrew and Paul G. Bahn).
Introduction: DNA (Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew).
Introduction: Languages (Paul Heggarty and Colin Renfrew).
Africa.
Early Hominins (Zeresenay Alemseged).
Earliest Industries of Africa (David R. Braun).
The Human Revolution (Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew).
The Genus Homo in Africa (John G. Fleagle and Frederick E. Grine).
Becoming Human: Archaeology of the Sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age (Christopher S. Henshilwood and Marlize Lombard).
The Later Stone Age of Southern Africa (John Parkington).
Prehistory in North Africa after the Middle Palaeolithic (Jean-Loïc Le Quellec).
Holocene Prehistory of West Africa (Peter Breunig).
The Archaeology of the Central African Rainforest: Its Current State (Manfred K. H. Eggert).
The Later Prehistory of Southern Africa from the Early to the Late Iron Age (Shadreck Chirikure).
The Prehistory of East Africa (François Bon and François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar).
Neolithic and Predynastic Egypt (Stan Hendrickx and Dirk Huyge).
The Emergence of the Egyptian State (Stan Hendrickx).
Pharaonic History (Salima Ikram).
Summary of Classical and Post-Classical Africa (Jacke Phillips).
Africa: Languages (Paul Heggarty and Colin Renfrew).
South and Southeast Asia.
The Palaeolithic of South Asia (Katragadda S. Paddayya).
The Early Palaeolithic of Southeast Asia (Roy Larick and Russell L. Ciochon).
South and Southeast Asia: DNA (Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew).
The Upper Palaeolithic of South and Southeast Asia (Ryan J. Rabett and Timothy E. G. Reynolds).
Post-Pleistocene South Asia: Food Production in India and Sri Lanka (Dorian Q. Fuller).
The Indus Civilisation (Jonathan Mark Kenoyer).
India beyond the Indus Civilisation (Dilip K. Chakrabarti).
Historic India (Dilip K. Chakrabarti).
Early Food Production in Southeast Asia (Rasmi Shoocongdej).
Complex Society in Prehistoric Mainland Southeast Asia (Dougald O’Reilly).
Summary of Historic Mainland Southeast Asia (Dougald O’Reilly).
Prehistory of the Indonesian Archipelago (Daud Aris Tanudirjo).
The Philippines (Victor Paz).
South and Island Southeast Asia: Languages (Paul Heggarty and Colin Renfrew).
The Pacific.
The Pacific: DNA (Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew).
Sahul and Near Oceania in the Pleistocene (Peter White).
New Guinea during the Holocene (Tim Denham).
The Later Prehistory of Australia (Caroline Bird).
Micronesia (Geoffrey Clark).
Melanesia (Stuart Bedford).
Polynesia (Patrick V. Kirch).
New Zealand (Pamela Chester).
The Pacific: Languages (Paul Heggarty and Colin Renfrew).Volume 2
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