Origin of Civilization

Tracklist

• 1
  Ancient States and Civilizations
• 2
  The History of Archaeological Research
• 3
  Studying the Origins of States
• 4
  Archaeological Interpretation — Çatalhöyük
• 5
  Stepping Stones to Civilization
• 6
  Trajectories of Cultural Development
• 7
  When Is a State a State?
• 8
  A Complex Neolithic — Halafian and Samarran
• 9
  Hierarchy and Urbanism — 'Ubaid Mesopotamia
• 10
  The Uruk World System
• 11
  Sumer and Afterward
• 12
  Civilization and Pastoralism in Mesopotamia
• 13
  The Development of Writing in Mesopotamia
• 14
  The Gift of the Nile
• 15
  The Egyptian Predynastic Period
• 16
  The Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
• 17
  Divinity and Display in Dynastic Egypt
• 18
  Why So Different? Mesopotamia and the Nile
• 19
  Borders and Territories of Ancient States
• 20
  The Levantine Copper and Early Bronze Ages
• 21
  Hierarchy and Society in the Aegean
• 22
  Early Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
• 23
  Palace and Countryside on Crete
• 24
  How Things Fall Apart — The Greek Dark Ages
• 25
  First Farmers in the Indus Valley
• 26
  Cities Along the Indus
• 27
  Seeing What We Expect — Power and Display
• 28
  Sedentism and Agriculture in Early China
• 29
  State Formation in Ancient China
• 30
  Origins of the Chinese Writing System
• 31
  From Human Sacrifice to the Tao of Politics
• 32
  Spread of States in Mainland Southeast Asia
• 33
  Axumite Civilization in Ethiopia
• 34
  Inland Niger Delta — Hierarchy and Heterarchy
• 35
  Lake Chad Basin — Settlement and Complexity
• 36
  Great Zimbabwe and Its Successors
• 37
  Sedentism and Agriculture in Mesoamerica
• 38
  The Olmec of Lowland Mexico
• 39
  Teotihuacán — The First American City
• 40
  Beginnings of States in Lowland Mesoamerica
• 41
  The Great Maya City-States
• 42
  Epigraphy — Changing Views of the Maya
• 43
  Was There a Maya Collapse?
• 44
  Adaptations in Pacific South America
• 45
  Pyramids and Precocity in Coastal Peru
• 46
  Andean Civilization — Chavín to Chimú
• 47
  The Florescence of the Inka Empire
• 48
  Ancient States — Unity and Diversity?

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