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The rise and fall of civilizations : modern archaeological approaches to ancient cultures

Title
The rise and fall of civilizations : modern archaeological approaches to ancient cultures / selected readings [compiled by] C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Jeremy A. Sabloff.
Publication
  • Menlo Park, California : Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., [1974]
  • ©1974

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Additional Authors
  • Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C., 1937-
  • Sabloff, Jeremy A.
Description
485 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Civilization, Ancient
  • Indians > Antiquities
  • Antiquities
  • Pre-Historia
  • America > Antiquities
  • America
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
The urban revolution / V.G. Childe -- Developmental aspects of hydraulic societies / K. Wittfogel -- On the evolution of social stratification and the state / M.H. Fried -- Speculation about how and why food production and village life developed in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico / R.S. MacNeish -- Microenvironments and Mesoamerican prehistory / M.D. Coe and K.V. Flannery -- The Olmec and the Valley of Oaxaca: a model for inter-regional interaction in formative times / K.V. Flannery -- The origin and development of Lowland Classic Maya civilization / W.L. Rathje -- Commentary on the emergence of civilization in the Maya Lowlands / G.R. Willey -- The collapse of Classic Maya civilization in the southern lowlands: a symposium summary statement / D.B. Shimkin -- Hydraulic agriculture, economic symbiosis, and the evoltion of states in central Mexico / W.T. Sanders -- Precolombian urbanism: the Central Mexican highlands and the Lowland Maya / G.R. Willey -- Toward a systemic view of Mesoamerican prehistory: inter-site sociopolitical organization / G.W. Conrad -- The early great styles and the rise of pre-Colombian civilizations / G.R. Willey -- The central Andes / D. Collier -- Walk-in-wells and water management at Chanchan, Peru / K.C. Day -- Huanuco Viejo: an Inca administrative cneter / C. Morris and D.E. Thompson -- The temple town community: Cahokia and Amalucan compared / M.L. Fowler -- The role of Transpacific contacts in the development of New World pre-Coloombian civilizations / P. Philips -- Origins and ecological effects of early domestication in Iran and the Near East / K.V. Flannery -- Investigating the origins of Mesopotamian civilization / F. Hole -- Salt and silt in ancient Mesopotamian agriculture / T. Jacobsen and R.M. Adams -- Selections from Letters from Mesopotamia / a.L. Oppenheim -- Trade mechanisms in indus-Mesopotamian interrelations / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- The Indus civilization and the Aryan invasions / B. Allchin and R. Allchin -- The Indus flood-plain and the "Indus" civilization / H.T. Lambrick -- The Indus Valley culture / G. Singh -- The dark ages in ancient history / B. Bell -- A scientist looks at the pyramids / K. Mendelssohn -- Ancient Egypt and black Africa, early contacts / D. O'Connor -- The decadence of Minoan Crete: the Mycenaean empire / R. W. Hutchinson -- The dark age / M.I. Finley -- The emergence of civilization in North China / K.C. Chang -- The concept of "civilization" in European archaeology / R. Tringham.
ISBN
  • 0846567067
  • 9780846567066
LCCN
73086732
OCLC
  • ocm01004457
  • 1004457
  • SCSB-141572
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library