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I. Prehistoric Times |
A. Introduction |
1. History and Prehistory |
2. The Study of Prehistory |
a. Archaeology as Anthropology and History |
b. Culture and Context |
c. Time and Space |
d. Finding and Digging up the Past |
e. Analysis and Interpretation |
f. Subdividing Prehistoric Times |
g. Theoretical Approaches to Prehistory |
B. Prehistory and the Great Ice Age |
C. Human Origins (4 Million to 1.8 Million Years Ago) |
D. Homo Erectus and the First Peopling of the World (1.8 Million to 250,000 Years Ago) |
1. Homo Erectus |
2. Fire |
3. Out of Africa |
E. Early Homo Sapiens (c. 250,000 to c. 35,000 Years Ago) |
1. The Neanderthals |
F. The Origins of Modern Humans (c. 150,000 to 100,000 Years Ago) |
G. The Spread of Modern Humans in the Old World (100,000 to 12,000 Years Ago) |
1. Europe |
2. Eurasia and Siberia |
3. South and Southeast Asia |
H. The First Settlement of the Americas (c. 15,000 Years Ago) |
I. After the Ice Age: Holocene Hunter-Gatherers (12,000 Years Ago to Modern Times) |
1. African Hunter-Gatherers |
2. Asian Hunter-Gatherers |
3. Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe |
4. Near Eastern Hunters and Foragers |
5. Paleo-Indian and Archaic North Americans |
6. Central and South Americans |
J. The Origins of Food Production |
K. Early Food Production in the Old World (c. 10,000 B.C.E. and Later) |
1. First Farmers in the Near East |
2. Early European Farmers |
3. Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa |
4. Asian Farmers |
L. The Origins of Food Production in the Americas (c. 5000 B.C.E. and Later) |
M. Later Old World Prehistory (3000 B.C.E. and Afterward) |
1. State-Organized Societies |
2. Webs of Relations |
3. Later African Prehistory |
a. Egypt and Nubia |
b. West African States |
c. East and Southern Africa |
4. Europe after 3500 B.C.E. |
5. Eurasian Nomads |
6. Asia |
a. South Asia |
b. China |
c. Japan |
d. Southeast Asia |
7. Offshore Settlement in the Pacific |
N. Chiefdoms and States in the Americas (c. 1500 B.C.E.1532 C.E.) |
1. North American Chiefdoms |
2. Mesoamerican Civilizations |
a. Olmec |
b. Teotihuacán |
3. Andean Civilizations |
a. Beginnings |
b. Chavin |
c. Moche |
d. Tiwanaku |
e. Chimu |
O. The End of Prehistory (1500 C.E. to Modern Times) |
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