GENERAL PREHISTORY
(A sampling of the more useful and current standard works in English.)
Childe, V. Gordon
_The Dawn of European Civilization._ 1957. Kegan Paul, Trench,
Trubner.
_Prehistoric Migrations in Europe._ 1950. Instituttet for
Sammenlignende Kulturforskning.
Clark, Grahame
_Archaeology and Society._ 1957. Harvard University Press.
Clark, J. G. D.
_Prehistoric Europe: The Economic Basis._ 1952. Methuen and Co.
Garrod, D. A. E.
_Environment, Tools, and Man._ 1946. Cambridge University
Press.
Movius, Hallam L., Jr.
“Old World Prehistory: Paleolithic” in _Anthropology Today_.
Kroeber, A. L., ed. 1953. University of Chicago Press.
Oakley, Kenneth P.
_Man the Tool-Maker._ 1956. British Museum (Natural History).
(Also in Phoenix edition, 1957.)
Piggott, Stuart
_British Prehistory._ 1949. Oxford University Press.
Pittioni, Richard
_Die Urgeschichtlichen Grundlagen der Europäischen Kultur._
1949. Deuticke. (A single book which does attempt to cover the
whole range of European prehistory to ca. 1 A.D.)
THE NEAR EAST
Adams, Robert M.
“Developmental Stages in Ancient Mesopotamia,” _in_ Steward,
Julian, _et al_, _Irrigation Civilizations: A Comparative
Study_. 1955. Pan American Union.
Braidwood, Robert J.
_The Near East and the Foundations for Civilization._ 1952.
University of Oregon.
Childe, V. Gordon
_New Light on the Most Ancient East._ 1952. Oriental Dept.,
Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Frankfort, Henri
_The Birth of Civilization in the Near East._ 1951. University
of Indiana Press. (Also in Anchor edition, 1956.)
Pallis, Svend A.
_The Antiquity of Iraq._ 1956. Munksgaard.
Wilson, John A.
_The Burden of Egypt._ 1951. University of Chicago Press. (Also
in Phoenix edition, called _The Culture of Ancient Egypt_,
1956.)
HOW DIGGING IS DONE
Braidwood, Linda
_Digging beyond the Tigris._ 1953. Schuman, New York.
Wheeler, Sir Mortimer
_Archaeology from the Earth._ 1954. Oxford, London.
Index
Abbevillian, 48;
core-biface tool, 44, 48
Acheulean, 48, 60
Acheuleo-Levalloisian, 63
Acheuleo-Mousterian, 63
Adams, R. M., 106
Adzes, 45
Africa, east, 67, 89;
north, 70, 89;
south, 22, 25, 34, 40, 67
Agriculture, incipient, in England, 140;
in Near East, 123
Ain Hanech, 48
Amber, taken from Baltic to Greece, 167
American Indians, 90, 142
Anatolia, used as route to Europe, 138
Animals, in caves, 54, 64;
in cave art, 85
Antevs, Ernst, 19
Anyathian, 47
Archeological interpretation, 8
Archeology, defined, 8
Architecture, at Jarmo, 128;
at Jericho, 133
Arrow, points, 94;
shaft straightener, 83
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