Title & Author:

Smithsonian timelines of the ancient world / [editor-in-chief], Chris Scarre.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution ; New York : Dorling Kindersley, 1993.

Description:

256 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 37 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 256) and index.
Foreword -- Introduction -- How the book works -- Part one. First life on earth (4,600- 1 million years ago). Introduction ; Timecharts ; Feature: Olduvai Gorge -- Surviving the Ice ages (1 million -- 100,000 years ago). Introduction ; Timecharts ; Feature: the Ice age cycle -- The first modern humans (100,000-35,000 years ago). Introduction ; Timecharts ; Feature: the Neanderthals -- Crossing to America (33,000-13,000 BC). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: decorated caves -- The ice thaws (13,000-8000 BC). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: the big-game hunters -- Farmers & hunter-gatherers (8000-5000 BC). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: origins of food production -- Part two. From village to city (5000-3000 BC). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: the Uruk civilization -- An age of monuments (3000-2000 BC). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: the pyramids at Giza -- Diverging cultures (2000-1600 BC). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: Alpine lake villages -- Expansion & consolidation (1600-1000 BC). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: the Shang state in China -- Rise & fall of empires (1000-500 BC). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: the Olmec of Mexico -- Part three. An age of expansion (500-200 BC). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: the art of Classical Greece -- Imperial realms (200 BC-AD 200). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: urban life in Ephesus -- The struggle for power (AD 200-600). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: colonization of the Pacific -- The rise of Islam (AD 600-800). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: temple-pyramids -- Part 4. Thriving economies. Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: Pueblo villages -- Conquests & crusades (AD 1000-1250). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: East African trade -- Contact & diversity (AD 1250-1500). Introduction and maps ; Timecharts ; Feature: Inca roads -- Maps -- Index -- Bibliography & acknowledgments.

Summary:

Tracks the advance of history from human origins to the Renaissance in all parts of the world simultaneously, through specially designed time charts featuring full-color photographs of fascinating artifacts from a diversity of cultures.

ISBN:

1564583058
9781564583055

Subject:

History, Ancient Chronology.
History, Ancient Pictorial works.
Middle Ages Chronology.
Middle Ages Pictorial works.
Middle Ages History Chronology.
Histoire ancienne Ouvrages illustrés.
Moyen Âge Histoire Chronologie.
Moyen Âge Ouvrages illustrés.
Histoire ancienne Chronologie.
Moyen Âge Chronologie.
History, Ancient
Middle Ages
Ancient history Chronology.
Ancient history Pictorial works.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
Viewbooks.
chronologies (lists)
illustrated books.
History
Illustrated works
Chronologies
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Scarre, Christopher, editor.
Smithsonian Institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room atlas 81394
Call No.: D54.5.S65 (ID:95-B2672)
Status: Available