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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