ARCL1003: Past Societies: Cyprian Broodbank Academic Year 2012/13
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Introductory readings and online references 3 items
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People of the earth: an introduction to world prehistory - c20010130283215
Book
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The human past: world prehistory & the development of human societies - 20050500285314,9780500285312
Book BY FAR THE BEST OF ALL!
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Ancient civilizations - , c20030130484849
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Lecture 1 Introduction to the course 1 item
- The only essential reading is this handbook!
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Lecture 2: A prehistory for the planet 3 items
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Reviving the grand narrative: archaeology and long-term change - 1995
Article Essential Digitised reading
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Lecture 3: Timescales and early human origins 2 items
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Principles of human evolution - , 20040632047046
Book Essential CHAPTERS 8 TO 10
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The human past: world prehistory & the development of human societies - 20050500285314,9780500285312
Book Essential CHAPTER 2
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Lecture 4: Early 'Homo' and dispersal out of Africa 2 items
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The human career: human biological and cultural origins - 19990226439631
Book Essential CHAPTER 4.
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The complete world of human evolution - , c20050500051321
Book Essential PPS. 130-151, 184-226
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Lecture 5: The evolution of modern humans: anatomy, behaviour and spread 2 items
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The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior - , 2000
Article Essential E-journal available
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The complete world of human evolution - , c20050500051321
Book Essential PPS. 152-183
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Lecture 6: After the ice 3 items
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The Natufian culture in the Levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture - 1998
Article Essential E-journal available
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The Peopling of the New World: Present Evidence, New Theories, and Future Directions - 2000
Article Essential Electronic journal
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The Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia - 1990
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Lecture 7: early farming: a comparative perspective 2 items
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Evolution, consequences and future of plant and animal domestication - 2002-8-8
Article Essential Electronic journal
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An Emerging Paradigm Shift in the Origins of Agriculture - 2010-09
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Lecture 8: Neolithic revolution in the Near East 2 items
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Article Essential Electronic journal
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From foragers to complex societies in Southwest Asia -
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Lecture 9: East and south Asian farming 3 items
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Finding Plant Domestication in the Indian Subcontinent - 2011-10
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Asia, south: Neolithic cultures -
Chapter Essential Electronic resource. You will need to search within the encyclopedia for the article.
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Pathways to Asian Civilizations: Tracing the Origins and Spread of Rice and Rice Cultures - 2011
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Lecture 10: Neolithic Europe: a case study 2 items
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Culture and change in central European prehistory: 6th to 1st millennium BC - 20078779342450,9788779342453
Book Essential CHAPTERS 2 - 4
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Lecture 11: Other pathways 3 items
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The origins of African livestock: indigenous or imported? -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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A developmental history of West African agriculture -
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Cattle before crops: the beginning of food production in Africa - , 2002
Article Essential E-journal available
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Lecture 12: Other pathways: the American neotropics 3 items
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Origins of food-producing economies in the Americas -
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Growing plants and raising animals -
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Domestication and agriculture in the New World Tropics -
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Lecture 13: Developing themes: early metallurgy 2 items
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Development of metallurgy in Eurasia - , , 2009
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Cost, benefit and value in the organization of early European copper production - 1999
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Lecture 14: Developing themes: secondary products 3 items
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The Secondary Products Revolution, Horse-Riding, and Mounted Warfare - , 2011-7-21
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Plough and pastoralism: aspects of the secondary products revolution -
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Cash-crops before cash: organic consumables and trade -
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Lecture 15: Developing themes: long-range interaction 3 items
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The origins and development of seafaring: towards a global approach -
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What contacts did they have: trade and exchange - ,
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Lecture 16: Developing themes: complex societies 3 items
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Myths of the archaic state: evolution of the earliest cities, states and civilizations - 2005
Book Essential E-BOOK. CHAPTERS 1 AND 2.
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Lecture 17: Why cities? The Middle East at 4000 BC 3 items
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Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East - 20040816022186
Book Essential PAGES 18-73
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Lecture 18: The emergence of Egypt 2 items
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Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period c. 2686-1552 BC -
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Lecture 19: Towards a transformation of Eurasia 2 items
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The making of bronze age Eurasia - 20079780521847803
Book Essential CHAPTER 6 AND AS MUCH PRECEDING AS TIME ALLOWS
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Article Essential Digitised reading
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Lecture 20: The world at 2000 BC 1 item
No reading for this lecture
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Lecture 21: Introduction and recapitulation 1 item
No reading for this lecture
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Lecture 22: World systems, empires, civilizations and collapse 4 items
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States, empires and exploitation: problems and perspectives - ,
Chapter Essential
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Questioning collapse: human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire - , 20100521515726,0521733669,9780521515726,9780521733663
Book Essential CHAPTER 1 AND BROWSE SOME OTHER EXAMPLES
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Article Essential Digitised reading
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What makes civilization?: the ancient Near East and the future of the West - 20100192805800,9780192805805
Book Essential INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION
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Lecture 23: The Bronze Age Near East and Mediterranean 2 items
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The Mediterranean and its hinterland -
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From luxuries to commodities: the nature of Mediterranean Bronze Age trading systems - ,
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Lecture 24: The first empires: Assyria and beyond 3 items
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Assyrian rule of conquered territory in ancient western Asia -
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Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East - 20040816022186
Book Essential PP. 158-198
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Lecture 25: The Mediterranean and Europe in the Iron Age 2 items
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The growth of the Mediterranean economy in the early first millennium BC - , 1993-02
Article Essential Digitised reading
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Lecture 26: The Roman Empire 2 items
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Being Roman: Expressing identity in a provincial setting - 2004
Article Essential Print journal only
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Rome: an empire's story - c2012019977529X,9780199775293
Book Essential CHAPTER 1
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Lecture 27: India and southeast Asia 3 items
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The Mauryan state and empire -
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City states of north India and Pakistan at the time of the Buddha -
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The political economy of craft production: crafting empire in South India, c. 1350-1650 - 20030521826136
Book Essential CHAPTER 1
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Lecture 28: China: the growth of empire 3 items
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The Cambridge illustrated history of China - 20100521196205,0521124336,9780521196208,9780521124331
Book Essential CHAPTERS 3 - 5
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State formation in early China - , 20030715632248
Book Essential
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China's early empires: a re-appraisal - , 20100521852978,9780521852975
Book Essential ESPECIALLY PIRAZZOLI-T'SERSTEVENS 'URBANISM', PP. 169-185 AND SNODGRASS, 'ARCHAEOLOGY IN CHINA: A VIEW FROM OUTSIDE', PP. 232-250.
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Lecture 29: Islamic civilizations 2 items
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An introduction to Islamic archaeology - c2010
Book Essential E-BOOK
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What is 'Islamic' archaeology? - 2005
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Lecture 30: Scale change: systems collapse and the emergence of the European Middle Ages 1 item
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The archaeology of Medieval Europe - , , , 2007-8779342906,9788779342880,9788779342897,9788779342910,9788779342903
Book Essential ESPECIALLY CHAPTERS 5 ON MATERIAL CULTURE AND 8 ON TRADE AND TOWNS - PARTICULARLY THE HANSEATIC PHENOMENON.
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Lecture 31: West Africa: cities and statehood 3 items
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African civilizations: an archaeological perspective - 20010521593093
Book Essential CHAPTERS 1 AND 4
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Segou, slavery and Sifinso - ,
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Cities without citadels: understanding urban origins along the Middle Niger - ,
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Lecture 32: Eastern and southern Africa: trade and social change 2 items
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Forgotten Africa: an introduction to its archaeology - 20040415305918,041530590x
Book Essential CHAPTERS 24-27
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African civilizations: an archaeological perspective - 20010521593093
Book Essential CHAPTERS 7 AND 9
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Lecture 33: Mesoamerica: cities and urbanism 2 items
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Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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The cities of ancient Mexico: reconstructing a lost world - 19970500279292
Book Essential READ SECTIONS ON TEOTIHUACAN, THE MAYA AND THE AZTECS
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Lecture 34: South America: from states to empires 3 items
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Politics, resources and blood in the Inka Empire -
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Wari and Tiwanaku: international identities in the central Andean Middle Horizon -
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From village to empire in South America - ,
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Lecture 35: North America: mounds, pueblos and power 3 items
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The ancient mounds of Poverty Point: place of rings - c20010813018331,0813025516
Book Essential See chapters 5 and 12
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Complex societies of North America - ,
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North American archaeology - , 20050631231838,0631231846
Book Essential CHAPTERS 8-10
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Lecture 36: The Arctic, Australia and uttermost ends of the earth 2 items
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Lecture 37: Oceania, voyaging, island societies and cosmologies 3 items
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Say it with stone: constructing with stones on Easter Island - , , 2011-06
Article Essential Electronic journal
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On the road of the winds: an archaeological history of the Pacific Islands before European contact - 20000520234618,0520223470
Book Essential CHAPTERS 1, 4, 7-9
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The substance of Polynesian voyaging - 2008-06
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Lecture 38: Interconnections before and after 1492 3 items
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Ecological imperialism: the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900 - 19860521320097,0521336139
Book Essential CHAPTER 1, 11 AND 12. 2004 EDITION AT ANTHROPOLOGY B 28 CRO.
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The history of the conquest of New Spain - , 2008
Book Essential ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK. DIP INTO ANY SECTION OF THIS EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT, BUT DON'T MISS THE TENOCHTITLAN SECTIONS.
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Lecture 39: Globalization encounters post-1500 AD: the Atlantic 3 items
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Jamestown: the buried truth - c20060813927706,9780813927701
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Archaeology and history in the study of African Americans -
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An archaeological framework for slavery and emancipation, 1740-1880 -
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Lecture 40: The past and the future 3 items
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Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies - c20050393061310,9780393061314
Book Essential
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Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive - 2006, c20050140279512,9780140279511
Book Essential
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Why the West rules--for now: the patterns of history and what they reveal about the future - 20101846681472,9781846681479
Book Essential CHAPTERS 11 AND 12
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