World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways Through Time

by Michael Chazan

Overview

World Prehistory and Archaeology provides an integrated discussion of world prehistory and archaeological methods, presenting an up to date perspective on what we know about our human prehistory and how we come to know it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367415709
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/2021
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	476
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Chazan is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He earned his PhD in anthropology at Yale University, USA. Before coming to Toronto, Professor Chazan was a postdoctoral fellow with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. His field experience includes excavations in New Jersey, France, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and South Africa. Professor Chazan is the author of The Reality of Artifacts: An Archaeological Perspective published by Routledge. He co-directs the Wonderwerk Cave Research Project in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Getting Started in Archaeology; Chapter 2 Putting the Picture Together; Chapter 3 Early Hominins; Chapter 4 From Homo Erectus to Neanderthals; Chapter 5 The Origin of Modern Humans; Chapter 6 The Peopling of Australia and the New World; Chapter 7 Towers, Villages, and Longhouses; Chapter 8 Mounds and Maize; Chapter 9 A Feast of Diversity; Chapter 10 Complexity Without the State; Chapter 11 Cities, Pyramids, and Palaces; Chapter 12 Locating the Source of Authority; Chapter 13 From City to Empire; Chapter 14 Bringing the Four Parts Together; Chapter 15 Epilogue: Bringing It Back Home; Bibliography; Figures and photo credits; Index.

Editorial Reviews

An excellent overview for the introductory student in Prehistory and Archaeology. Taking a globalized focus to social complexity, Chazan has created a text that holistically takes humans from their earliest hominin origins through the expansion of civilizations around the world. In doing so, Chazan includes introductory archaeological principles, new information on hominin evolution, and does not preclude the State as a necessity of social complexity.

- Brad Biglow, Florida State College at Jacksonville, USA

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