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Ancient Lives: An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory book cover

7th Edition

Ancient Lives An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory

By Nadia Durrani, Brian M. Fagan Copyright 2021
594 Pages 269 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

594 Pages 269 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

594 Pages 269 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Focusing on sites of key significance and the world’s first civilizations, Ancient Lives is an accessible and engaging textbook which introduces complete beginners to the fascinating worlds of archaeology and prehistory. Drawing on their impressive combined experience of the field and the classroom, the authors use a jargon-free narrative style to enliven the major developments of more than 3... Read more

PART I

Archaeology: Studying Ancient Times

1 Introducing Archaeology and Prehistory

2 The Record of the Past

3 Acquiring the Record

4 How Did People Live?

PART II

Ancient Interactions

5 Individuals and Interactions

6 Studying the Intangible

7 Explaining the Past

PART III

The World of the First Humans

8 Human Origins

9 African Exodus

PART IV

Modern Humans Settle the World

10 The Great Diaspora

PART V

The First Farmers and Civilizations

11 The Earliest Farmers

12 The First Civilizations

13 Early Asian Civilizations

PART VI

Ancient America

14 North America

15 Mesoamerican Civilizations

16 Andean Civilizations

PART VII

Finale

17 What remains to be done: Archaeology and You

Biography

Brian M. Fagan is one of the world’s leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory. He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Nadia Durrani is a Cambridge University-trained archaeologist, with a PhD from University College, London, in Arabian archaeology. She is the former editor of Britain’s best-selling archaeology magazine, Current World Archaeology, and has written and edited many articles and books on archaeology from every corner of the globe.

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