Case Studies in Early Societies

Case Studies in Early Societies

Small, David B. (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania)

Cambridge University Press

04/2019

300

Dura

Inglês

9780521895057

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This book is for students and scholars of ancient civilizations who would benefit from an approach to Ancient Greece which compares anthropological approaches to other early civilizations, including ancient China, the Maya, the Inca, the Harappan, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Japan.
1. My analytical frame; 2. The Ancient Greek landscape; 3. The Neolithic in Greece; 4. Developments c.3200-2200 BCE; 5. The beginning of change and the evolution of a Koine; 6. Changes in the latter part of the second millennium BCE; 7. The eleventh to eighth centuries: from collapse to created chaos; 8. A brave new world: the new structure and characteristics of its emergence; 9. Developments after the rise of Macedon; 10. The Cretan difference; 11. The sweep of things: the larger picture of the evolution of Ancient Greece; 12. Greece is not alone: the small polity evolutionary characteristics of the ancient Greeks and other past cultures.