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This comprehensive review of world prehistory
is organized around the five topics central to archaeology:
the origins of culture, the development of physically "modern"
people, Pleistocene cultures, the establishment of agricultural
economies, and the rise of complex states and empires. It
presents a coherent philosophy of the field, reflecting
the archaeological methods and theories of the 1960s and
70s while reviewing the methodological revisions of the
80s, and relates the archaeological data from hundreds of
sites to the great questions of prehistorical change. Thoroughly
revised and updated to include new scholarship and the most
recent discoveries, the third edition features new material
on the Neandertals, Pleistocene cave art, the "Eve"
Hypothesis, and ancient Egypt, as well as many new illustrations
and an analysis of modern archaeological theory within the
context of Western intellectual history.
Robert J. Wenke is Professor of Anthropology
at the University of Washington. He has conducted archaeological
field work in the Netherlands, Turkey, Iran, Mexico, Egypt,
and the United States, and is the author of the forthcoming
Kom El-Hisn: An Old Kingdom Egyptian Provincial Settlement.
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