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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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