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Author:   Michael Chazan (University of Toronto, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   5th edition
Weight:   1.300kg
ISBN:  

9780367415686

ISBN 10:   0367415682
Pages:   476
Publication Date:   30 April 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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.

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