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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 | |