Record details

• Physical Description: 18 audio discs (approximately 1080 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (65, 72, 73 pages : maps ; 22 cm.)
• Publisher: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2002]
• Copyright: ©2002

Content descriptions

General Note:

Accompanying guidebooks have ©2003 date.

Compact discs.

In 3 containers ; six compact discs in each container.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references in course guidebooks.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. Introducing human prehistory ; In the beginning ; Our earliest ancestors ; The first human diaspora ; The first Europeans ; The Neanderthals ; The origins of Homo sapiens sapiens ; The great diaspora ; The world of the Cro-Magnons ; Artists and mammoth hunters ; The first Americans ; The Paleo-Indians and afterward -- Part II. After the Ice Age ; The first farmers ; Why farming? ; The first European farmers ; Farming in Asia and settling the Pacific ; The story of maize ; The origins of states and civilization ; Sumerian civilization ; Ancient Egyptian civilization to the Old Kingdom ; Ancient Egypt : Middle and New Kingdoms ; The Minoan civilization of Crete ; The eastern Mediterranean world -- Part III. The Harappan civilization of South Asia ; South and Southeast Asia ; Africa : a world of interconnectedness ; The origins of Chinese civilization ; China : Zhou to the Han ; Southeast Asian civilizations ; Pueblos and moundbuilders in North America ; Ancient Maya civilization ; Highland Mesoamerican civilization ; The origins of Andean civilization ; The Inka and their predecessors ; Epilogue.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lectures delivered by Professor Brian M. Fagan, University of California at Santa Barbara.

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Subject:

Civilization, Ancient.
History, Ancient.
Prehistoric peoples.

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Audiobooks.

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