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Archaeological atlas of the world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Whitehouse, David, 1941-2013, Whitehouse, Ruth (Author)
Other Authors: Woodcock, John, 1924-2011, Schotten, Shalom
Format: Map
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, 1975.
Subjects:
Archaeology > Maps.
Archaeology.
Atlases.
Maps.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Palaeolithic sites in the Old World
  • Pre-Neandertal hominid fossils
  • Neandertal fossils
  • Early man in Africa
  • Old World sites earlier than the Holstein interglacial
  • Palaeolithic sites in India
  • Palaeolithic sites in east and south-east Asia
  • Middle palaeolithic and leptolithic sites in Africa
  • Middle palaeolithic and leptolithic sites in the Near East
  • European sites between the Holstein and Eemian interglacials
  • Middle palaeolithic sites in Europe
  • middle palaeolithic and leptolithic sites in Russia
  • leptolithic sites in Europe
  • Palaeolithic sites in the Dordogne
  • Leptolithic art
  • Franco-Cantabrian art
  • 'Venuses' and other leptolithic figurines
  • Post-glacial hunters and gatherers in Europe
  • II. Africa
  • Late Stone Age and neolithic sites
  • Iron Age and recent sites
  • Predynastic Egypt
  • Dynastic Egypt
  • III. Western Asia
  • The food-producing revolution
  • The urban revolution
  • The earliest agriculture in western Asia
  • The early civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley
  • Neolithic and Copper Age sites in Mesopotamia
  • Mesopotamia: Sumer, Agade and Elam
  • Mesopotamia: Babylon and Assyria
  • neolithic to Bronze Age sites in Anatolia
  • The Hittites and their successors
  • Late prehistoric and proto-historic sites in the Near East
  • Iran before the Medes and the Persians
  • Iran: the Medes and the Persians
  • The Scythians
  • The Arabian peninsula
  • Afghanistan.
  • IV. The Mediterranean Basin
  • Neolithic to Bronze Age sites in western Anatolia and the Cyclades
  • Neolithic sites in Greece
  • Cyprus
  • Crete
  • Mycenaean and other Bronze Age sites in Greece
  • The Mycenaeans abroad
  • The Phoenicians at home
  • The Phoenicians abroad
  • Archaic and classical Greece
  • The Greeks overseas
  • Neolithic sites n the central Mediterranean
  • Copper and Bronze Age sites in Italy
  • Copper and Bronze Age sites in Sicily and the Aeolian Islands
  • Copper and Bronze Age sites in Corsica and Sardinia
  • Early Iron Age sites in the central Mediterranean
  • The central Mediterranean: Carthaginians, Greeks and Etruscans
  • Malta
  • Neolithic sites in Iberia
  • Copper and Bronze Age sites in Iberia
  • Early Iron Age sites in Iberia
  • V. Europe with Russia
  • The spread of agriculture into Europe
  • Neolithic sites in eastern Europe
  • The Danubian cultures
  • Neolithic and Copper Age sites in France and Switzerland
  • Neolithic sites in the British Isles
  • Neolithic sites in northern Europe
  • The Stone Age of arctic Europe
  • Megalithic monuments in Europe
  • Rock-cut tombs in Europe
  • Megalithic enclosures and alignments in the British Isles and Brittany
  • The Bell Beaker, Battle-axe and Globular Amphora cultures
  • Late Copper Age to Middle Bronze Age sites in eastern Europe
  • Early and Middle Bronze Age sites in central Europe
  • Bronze Age sites in France and Belgium
  • Bronze Age sites the British Isles
  • Bronze Age sites in northern Europe
  • The Urnfields of central Europe
  • The spread of Urnfield cultures in Europe
  • The Hallstatt and La Tene Iron Ages
  • Iron Age sites in Europe: Greek and Etruscan imports and princely burials
  • Iron Age sites n the British Isles
  • Iron Age sites in northern Europe
  • Celtic art
  • Bronze Age and Early Iron Age sites in European Russia.
  • VI. South and East Asia, Australasia and the Pacific
  • The Indus valley civilization
  • Neolithic sites in China
  • Early civilization in China
  • Siberia and adjacent regions
  • Japan
  • The islands of south-east Asia
  • Neolithic sites in south-east Asia
  • Early civilizations in south-east Asia
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Early sites in the Pacific
  • VII. The Americas
  • The earliest Americans
  • The first farmers in the Americas
  • Later collectors and farmers in the Americas
  • Urban civilization in the Americas
  • The Aztecs and their predecessors
  • The Maya and their predecessors
  • The intermediate area and Amazonia
  • Peru: the Incas and their predecessors
  • The Caribbean
  • Eskimo prehistory.