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Prolegomena and Prehistory

Series The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 1, Part 1

Edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd and N. G. L. Hammond

Publication Date 1970

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521070515

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521070515

Overview

Part 1 of volume I deals with the history of the Near East from about 3000 to 1750 B.C. In Egypt, a long period of political unification and stability enabled the kings of the Old Kingdom to develop and exploit natural resources, to mobilize both the manpower and the technical skill to build the pyramids, and to encourage sculptors in the production of works of superlative quality. After a period of anarchy and civil war at the end of the Sixth Dynasty the local rulers of Thebes established the so-called Middle Kingdom, restoring an age of political calm in which the arts could again flourish. In Western Asia, Babylonia was the main centre and source of civilisation, and her moral, though not always her military, hegemony was recognized and accepted by the surrounding countries of Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Assyria and Elam. The history of the region is traced from the late Uruk and Jamdat Nasr periods up to the rise of Hammurabi, the most significant developments being the invention of writing in the Uruk period, the emergence of the Semites as a political factor under Sargon, and the success of the centralized bureaucracy under the Third Dynasty of Ur.

For more details of the print book, and how to buy it online, please see Prolegomena and Prehistory in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The Cambridge Ancient History Vol. 1, part 1: Prolegomena and Prehistory

Frontmatter

The Geological Ages by D. L. Linton and F. Moseley

Physical Conditions in Eastern Europe, Western Asia and Egypt Before the Period of Agricultural and Urban Settlement by K. W. Butzer

Primitive Man in Egypt, Western Asia and Europe by Dorothy A. E. Garrod

The Evidence of Language by W. F. Albright and T. O. Lambdin

The Earliest Populations of Man in Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa by D. R. Hughes and D. R. Brothwell

Chronology by William C. Hayes, M. B. Rowton and Frank H. Stubbings

The Earliest Settlements in Western Asia from the Ninth to the End of the Fifth Millennium B.C. by J. Mellaart

Anatolia Before c. 4000 B.C. by J. Mellaart

The Development of Cities from Al-‘Ubaid to the End of Uruk 5 by Max Mallowan

Predynastic Egypt by Elise J. Baumgartel

Palestine During the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods by R. de Vaux

Cyprus in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods by H. W. Catling

The Stone Age in the Aegean by S. S. Weinberg

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