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| Available versions include the following: Combined Volume: Chapters 1-30 (to present) Volume I: Chapters 1-15 (to 1500) Volume II: Chapters 13-30 (from 1300 to present) | |
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| Foragers and Farmers, to 5000 B.C.E | |
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| Out of the Ice | |
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| Peopling the Earth So You Think You re Human | |
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| Human Evolution Out of Africa Peopling the Old World Migration, Population, and Social Change The Last Great Ice Age | |
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| Ice-Age Hunters | |
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| Ice-Age Art | |
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| Ice-Age Culture and Society Peopling the New World | |
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| Survival of the Foragers In Perspective: After the Ice Age | |
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| Out of the Mud | |
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| Farming and Herding After the Ice Age | |
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| The Problem of Agriculture | |
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| A Case in Point: Aboriginal Australians Preagricultural Settlements | |
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| The Disadvantages of Farming Husbandry in Different Environments | |
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| Herders Environments | |
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| Tillers Environments | |
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| The Spread of Agriculture Europe Asia | |
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| The Americas Africa | |
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| The Pacific Islands So Why Did Farming Start? Population Pressure | |
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| The Outcome of Abundance | |
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| The Power of Politics Cult Agriculture | |
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| Climatic Instability Agriculture by Accident | |
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| Production as an Outgrowth of Procurement | |
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| In Perspective: Seeking Stability | |
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| Farmers and Builders, 5000 to 500 B.C.E | |
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| The Great River Valleys | |
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| Accelerating Change and Developing States Growing Communities, Divergent Cultures | |
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| Intensified Settlement and Its Effects | |
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| The Ecology of Civilization | |
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| The Great Floodplains | |
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| The Ecology of Egypt Shifting Rivers of the Indus Valley | |
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| Fierce Nature in Early Mesopotamia | |
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| The Good Earth of Early China Configurations of Society | |
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| Patterns of Settlement and Labor Politics | |
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| The Egyptian State Statecraft in Mesopotamia | |
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| The First Documented Chinese State Ruling the Harappan World | |
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| The Politics of Expansion Literate Culture | |
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| In Perspective: What made the Great River Valleys Different? | |
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| A Succession of Civilizations | |
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| Ambition and Instability | |
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| The Case of the Hittite Kingdom | |
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| The Importance of Trade Hittite Society and Politics Fragility and Fall | |
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| The End of Hatti Instability and Collapse in the Aegean Cretan Civilization Mycenaean Civilization | |
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| A General Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean? | |
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| The Egyptian Experience | |
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| The Roots of Instability | |
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| The Extinction of Harappan Civilization | |
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| The Evidence of the Rig Veda | |
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| The Environment of Stress Conflict on the Yellow River | |
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| The Rise of Zhou | |
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| The Zhou Political System State-Building in the Americas Andean Examples | |
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| Developments in Mesoamerica Assessing the Damage | |
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| The Survival of Egypt In Perspective: Fatal Flaws | |
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| Rebuilding the World | |
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| Recoveries, New Initiatives, and Their Limits Trade and Recovery in the Middle East | |
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| The Phoenician Experience | |
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| The Assyrian Empire | |
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| The Babylonian Revival Greeceand Beyond | |
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| The Greek Environment Greek Colonialism Early Greek Society | |
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| The Spread of State-Building and City-Building Empires and Recovery in China and South Asia | |
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| The Zhou Decline South Asia: Relocated Centers of Culture | |
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| The Ganges Valley Building Anew in Sri Lanka | |
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| The Frustrations of Isolation Developments in North America | |