Table of Contents
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