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Human prehistory and the first civilizations

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Course guide Includes bibliographical references

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Human prehistory and the first civilizations

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This program is a thirty-six-lecture narrative covering human prehistory from our beginnings more than 2.5 million years ago up to and beyond the advent of the world's first preindustrial civilizations -- Guidebook

Part I. Introducing human prehistory -- In the beginning -- Our earliest ancestors -- The first human diaspora -- The first Europeans -- The Neanderthals -- The origins of Homo sapiens sapiens -- The great diaspora -- The world of the Cro-Magnons -- Artists and mammoth hunters -- The first Americans -- The Paleo-Indians and afterward -- Part II. After the Ice Age -- The first farmers -- Why farming? -- The first European farmers -- Farming in Asia and settling the Pacific -- The story of maize -- The origins of states and civilization -- Sumerian civilization -- Ancient Egyptian civilization to the Old Kingdom -- Ancient Egypt : Middle and New Kingdoms -- The Minoan civilization of Crete -- The eastern Mediterranean world -- Part III. The Harappan civilization of South Asia -- South and Southeast Asia -- Africa : a world of interconnectedness -- The origins of Chinese civilization -- China : Zhou to the Han -- Southeast Asian civilizations -- Pueblos and moundbuilders in North America -- Ancient Maya civilization -- Highland Mesoamerican civilization -- The origins of Andean civilization -- The Inka and their predecessors -- Epilogue

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