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• catalog abstract "Synopsis: A thorough exploration of the nature and processes that led to civilization can be successfully accomplished by examining well-known archaeological areas in depth and within a comparative framework. This newly revised edition of Ancient Civilizations embraces this useful approach and remains the only in-depth overview that provides detailed discussions of both New World and Old World civilizations within the same book. The material is well presented in a lively yet authoritative manner by two highly regarded anthropologists. All educators and students concerned with the factual and theoretical issues surrounding ancient civilizations in the Near East, South and Central Asia, and Mesoamerica will find this to be an indispensable volume. A considerably expanded concluding chapter provides insights into some of the current debates about the development of ancient civilizations.".
• catalog contributor b8355872.
• catalog contributor b8355873.
• catalog coverage "Central America Civilization.".
• catalog coverage "Middle East Civilization.".
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description "Chapter 1: History Of History: -- Resume of historical views -- Ancient views of the past -- Classical historical views -- Saint Augustine's linear design of history -- Rise of scientific views -- Vico's successors -- Nineteenth-century views of progress -- Twentieth-century outlooks -- Spengler's intuitive approach -- Kroeber's "pure systems" -- Toynbee's environmental determinism -- Archaeological evidence -- Recent archaeological contributions -- Childe's contribution to theory -- Recent anthropological perspectives --Steward's environmental explanation -- White's view: cultures as a system -- Look ahead -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Agricultural Communities: Near Eastern Evidence: -- Neolithic revolution -- Causes of the Neolithic revolution -- Old and new world contrasts -- Theories of food production -- Neolithic "revolution": overview -- Era of incipient cultivation -- Natufian culture -- Incipient cultivation: some characteristics -- Early settlement patterns -- Borderline villages -- Incipient cultivation: some conclusions -- Evidence of sedentary food production -- Mountain village of Jarmo -- Settlement profile and cultural achievements -- Evidence of food production -- Oasis village of Jericho -- Jericho and the oasis debate -- Jericho in the PPNA -- Jericho in the PPNB -- Catal Huyuk and the Late Anatolian Neolithic -- Profile of Catal Huyuk -- Spread of the Neolithic -- Mesopotamian lowlands -- Umm Dabaghiyah culture -- Hassuna culture -- Samarra culture -- Halaf culture -- Halaf economy -- Halaf social organization -- Ubaid culture -- Search for origins -- Development of the culture -- Settlement patterns -- Trade and cultural contacts -- Meaning of the Ubaid -- Ubaid expansion -- Notes.".
• catalog description "Chapter 3: Rise Of Civilization: Egypt, Sumer, And The Indus: -- Ecological basis: contrasts and consistencies -- Mesopotamian lowlands -- Egypt's floodplains -- Varied topography of the Indus -- Egyptian civilization -- Early settlements and the predynastic period -- Explanations for the rise of Egyptian civilization -- Evolution of the Pharaonic state -- Egyptian state -- Sumerian civilization -- Formative period -- Explaining the urban revolution -- Uruk city-state: a profile -- Uruk expansion -- Protoliterate period -- Sumer and the Proto-Elamite culture -- Sumerian-Egyptian relations -- Mesopotamian center -- Dynastic tradition -- Chronology from historical texts -- Golden Age and its downfall -- Archaeological evidence -- Temple and palace -- Sumer: overview -- Sumerian market network -- Indus civilization -- Indus settlement patterns -- Trade and international contact -- Social structure and cultural achievements -- Caste or class: an hypothesis -- Collapse -- ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-386) and index.".
• catalog description "Oxus civilization -- Environment and subsistence -- Population -- Trade -- Social organization -- Technology -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization: -- Geography and climate -- Rise of agriculture -- Tehuacan Valley -- Tehuacan cultural sequence -- Agriculture and sedentism: an overview -- Domestication of maize -- Population pressure and plant domestication -- Other regions, other crops -- Consequences of food production: an overview -- Cultures of ancient Mesoamerica -- Olmecs and early Zapotecs -- First Mesoamerican civilization -- Explaning Olmec civilization -- Rise of Zapotec civilization -- Maya -- Rise of classic Maya civilization -- Cultural achievements -- Collapse of classic Maya civilization -- After the southern collapse -- Teotihuacan -- Rise of the Urban state -- Teotihuacan's fall -- Toltecs -- Rise of Tula and the Toltecs -- Toltecs in perspective -- Aztecs -- Rise of the Aztecs -- Tenochtitlan: great city of Mexico -- Aztec social system -- ".
• catalog description "Synopsis: A thorough exploration of the nature and processes that led to civilization can be successfully accomplished by examining well-known archaeological areas in depth and within a comparative framework. This newly revised edition of Ancient Civilizations embraces this useful approach and remains the only in-depth overview that provides detailed discussions of both New World and Old World civilizations within the same book. The material is well presented in a lively yet authoritative manner by two highly regarded anthropologists. All educators and students concerned with the factual and theoretical issues surrounding ancient civilizations in the Near East, South and Central Asia, and Mesoamerica will find this to be an indispensable volume. A considerably expanded concluding chapter provides insights into some of the current debates about the development of ancient civilizations.".
• catalog description "Tribute and trade -- Spanish conquest -- Notes -- Chapter 5: General Considerations: -- Independent development of old and new world civilizations -- Urban settlement -- Political systems and historical inquiry -- Economics and trade -- Ideology: social action and cultural change -- Notes -- References -- Photo credits -- Index.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 406 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Ancient civilizations.".
• catalog identifier "0881338346 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Ancient civilizations.".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press,".
• catalog relation "Ancient civilizations.".
• catalog spatial "Central America Civilization.".
• catalog spatial "Middle East Civilization.".
• catalog subject "930/.1 20".
• catalog subject "Civilization, Ancient.".
• catalog subject "Culture.".
• catalog subject "GN357 .L35 1995".
• catalog subject "Social evolution.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Chapter 1: History Of History: -- Resume of historical views -- Ancient views of the past -- Classical historical views -- Saint Augustine's linear design of history -- Rise of scientific views -- Vico's successors -- Nineteenth-century views of progress -- Twentieth-century outlooks -- Spengler's intuitive approach -- Kroeber's "pure systems" -- Toynbee's environmental determinism -- Archaeological evidence -- Recent archaeological contributions -- Childe's contribution to theory -- Recent anthropological perspectives --Steward's environmental explanation -- White's view: cultures as a system -- Look ahead -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Agricultural Communities: Near Eastern Evidence: -- Neolithic revolution -- Causes of the Neolithic revolution -- Old and new world contrasts -- Theories of food production -- Neolithic "revolution": overview -- Era of incipient cultivation -- Natufian culture -- Incipient cultivation: some characteristics -- Early settlement patterns -- Borderline villages -- Incipient cultivation: some conclusions -- Evidence of sedentary food production -- Mountain village of Jarmo -- Settlement profile and cultural achievements -- Evidence of food production -- Oasis village of Jericho -- Jericho and the oasis debate -- Jericho in the PPNA -- Jericho in the PPNB -- Catal Huyuk and the Late Anatolian Neolithic -- Profile of Catal Huyuk -- Spread of the Neolithic -- Mesopotamian lowlands -- Umm Dabaghiyah culture -- Hassuna culture -- Samarra culture -- Halaf culture -- Halaf economy -- Halaf social organization -- Ubaid culture -- Search for origins -- Development of the culture -- Settlement patterns -- Trade and cultural contacts -- Meaning of the Ubaid -- Ubaid expansion -- Notes.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Chapter 3: Rise Of Civilization: Egypt, Sumer, And The Indus: -- Ecological basis: contrasts and consistencies -- Mesopotamian lowlands -- Egypt's floodplains -- Varied topography of the Indus -- Egyptian civilization -- Early settlements and the predynastic period -- Explanations for the rise of Egyptian civilization -- Evolution of the Pharaonic state -- Egyptian state -- Sumerian civilization -- Formative period -- Explaining the urban revolution -- Uruk city-state: a profile -- Uruk expansion -- Protoliterate period -- Sumer and the Proto-Elamite culture -- Sumerian-Egyptian relations -- Mesopotamian center -- Dynastic tradition -- Chronology from historical texts -- Golden Age and its downfall -- Archaeological evidence -- Temple and palace -- Sumer: overview -- Sumerian market network -- Indus civilization -- Indus settlement patterns -- Trade and international contact -- Social structure and cultural achievements -- Caste or class: an hypothesis -- Collapse -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Oxus civilization -- Environment and subsistence -- Population -- Trade -- Social organization -- Technology -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization: -- Geography and climate -- Rise of agriculture -- Tehuacan Valley -- Tehuacan cultural sequence -- Agriculture and sedentism: an overview -- Domestication of maize -- Population pressure and plant domestication -- Other regions, other crops -- Consequences of food production: an overview -- Cultures of ancient Mesoamerica -- Olmecs and early Zapotecs -- First Mesoamerican civilization -- Explaning Olmec civilization -- Rise of Zapotec civilization -- Maya -- Rise of classic Maya civilization -- Cultural achievements -- Collapse of classic Maya civilization -- After the southern collapse -- Teotihuacan -- Rise of the Urban state -- Teotihuacan's fall -- Toltecs -- Rise of Tula and the Toltecs -- Toltecs in perspective -- Aztecs -- Rise of the Aztecs -- Tenochtitlan: great city of Mexico -- Aztec social system -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Tribute and trade -- Spanish conquest -- Notes -- Chapter 5: General Considerations: -- Independent development of old and new world civilizations -- Urban settlement -- Political systems and historical inquiry -- Economics and trade -- Ideology: social action and cultural change -- Notes -- References -- Photo credits -- Index.".
• catalog title "Ancient civilizations : the Near East and Mesoamerica / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Jeremy A. Sabloff.".
• catalog type "text".