Renfrew C., Bahn P. (eds). The Cambridge World Prehistory. Volume 3. West and Central Asia and Europe

Cambridge University Press, 2014. — pp. 1355-1994. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02379-6.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.Western and Central Asia.
The Early Prehistory of Western and Central Asia (Gonen Sharon).
Western and Central Asia: DNA (Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew).
The Upper Palaeolithic and Earlier Epi-Palaeolithic of Western Asia (Anna Belfer-Cohen and Nigel Goring-Morris).
The Origins of Sedentism and Agriculture in Western Asia (Ofer Bar-Yosef).
The Levant in the Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods (Yosef Garfinkel).
Settlement and Emergent Complexity in Western Syria, C. 7000–2500 BCE (Peter M. M. G. Akkermans).
Prehistory and the Rise of Cities in Mesopotamia and Iran (Joan Oates).
Mesopotamia: The Historical Periods (Joan Oates).
Anatolia: From the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the End of the Early Bronze Age (10,500–2000 BCE) (Mehmet Özdoğan).
Anatolia from 2000 to 550 BCE (Aslı Özyar).
The Prehistory of the Caucasus: Internal Developments and External Interactions (Philip L. Kohl and Viktor Trifonov).
Arabia (Lloyd Weeks).
Central Asia before the Silk Road (Hermann Parzinger).
Southern Siberia during the Bronze and Early Iron Periods (Vyacheslav Molodin and Natalya Polos’mak).
Western Asia after Alexander (Georgina Herrmann).
Western and Central Asia: Languages (Paul Heggarty and Colin Renfrew).
Europe and the Mediterranean.
Early Palaeolithic Europe (Olaf Jöris).
Europe and the Mediterranean: DNA (Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew).
The Upper Palaeolithic of Europe (João Zilhão).
Upper Palaeolithic Imagery (Paul G. Bahn).
Early Food Production in Southeastern Europe (John Chapman).
Early Food Production in Southwestern Europe (João Zilhão).
Hunters, Fishers and Farmers of Northern Europe, 9000–3000 BCE (Peter Bogucki).
The Aegean (Oliver Dickinson).
Post-Neolithic Western Europe (Alison Sheridan).
The Later Prehistory of Central and Northern Europe (Anthony F. Harding).
The Post-Neolithic of Eastern Europe (Bryan K. Hanks).
The Classical World (Anthony Snodgrass).
Europe and the Mediterranean: Languages (Paul Heggarty and Colin Renfrew).Volume 1
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