Contents Summary for Volumes 1, 2 and 3

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-xii

Volume 1 - Maps

pp xiii-xiv

Volume 2 - Maps

pp xv-xvi

Volume 3 - Maps

pp xvii-xviii

About the Contributors

pp xix-xxii

Volume 1

I. - Introduction

pp 1-2

1.1 - Introduction

pp 3-8

1.2 - Introduction: DNA

pp 9-18

1.3 - Introduction: Languages

pp 19-44

II. - Africa

pp 45-46

1.4 - Early Hominins

pp 47-64

1.5 - Earliest Industries of Africa

pp 65-79

1.6 - The Human Revolution

pp 80-84

1.7 - The Genus Homo in Africa

pp 85-105

1.8 - Becoming Human: Archaeology of the Sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age

pp 106-130

1.9 - The Later Stone Age of Southern Africa

pp 131-150

1.10 - Prehistory in North Africa after the Middle Palaeolithic

pp 151-164

1.11 - Holocene Prehistory of West Africa

pp 165-182

1.12 - The Archaeology of the Central African Rainforest: Its Current State

pp 183-203

1.13 - The Later Prehistory of Southern Africa from the Early to the Late Iron Age

pp 204-219

1.14 - The Prehistory of East Africa

pp 220-239

1.15 - Neolithic and Predynastic Egypt

pp 240-258

1.16 - The Emergence of the Egyptian State

pp 259-278

1.17 - Pharaonic History

pp 279-294

1.18 - Summary of Classical and Post-Classical Africa

pp 295-306

1.19 - Africa: Languages

pp 307-320

III. - South and Southeast Asia

pp 321-322