PART ONE
THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE
Chapter 1 GETTING STARTED IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Chapter 2 PUTTING THE PICTURE TOGETHER
PART TWO
HUMAN EVOLUTION
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
PART THREE
PERSPECTIVES ON AGRICULTURE
Chapter 7 TOWERS, VILLAGES, AND LONGHOUSES
Chapter 8 MOUNDS AND MAIZE
Chapter 9 A FEAST OF DIVERSITY
PART FOUR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL COMPLEXITY
Chapter 10 COMPLEXITY WITHOUT THE STATE
Chapter 11 CITIES, PYRAMIDS, AND PALACES: Early States of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean
Chapter 12 LOCATING THE SOURCE OF AUTHORITY: Early States in Asia
Chapter 13 FROM CITY TO EMPIRE: Social Complexity in Mesoamerica
Chapter 14 BRINGING THE FOUR PARTS TOGETHER: States and Empire in the Andes
Epilogue BRINGING IT BACK HOME
Glossary
References
Biography
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.
