Encyclopedia of Prehistory

1. Front Matter

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2. Acheulean

   • Sibel Barut Kusimba, Fred H. Smith

   Pages 1-22

3. Aterian

   • Alicia L. Hawkins, Maxine R. Kleindienst

   Pages 23-45

4. Central African Neolithic

   • Hans-Peter Wotzka

   Pages 46-58

5. Central African Iron Age

   • Hans-Peter Wotzka

   Pages 59-76

6. Early Dynastic Egypt

   • Dmitry Proussakov

   Pages 77-85

7. Early Khartoum

   • Frank Winchell

   Pages 86-94

8. East African Microlithic

   • Peter N. Peregrine

   Pages 95-96

9. East African Neolithic

   • Stanley Ambrose

   Pages 97-109

10. Khartoum Neolithic

    • Frank Winchell

    Pages 110-115

11. Late Paleolithic Egypt

    • Fred Wendorf

    Pages 116-128

12. Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Maghreb

    • David Lubell

    Pages 129-149

13. Lower Egypt Predynastic

    • Christiana Köhler

    Pages 150-160

14. Middle Paleolithic

    • Harold Dibble

    Pages 161-177

15. Middle Paleolithic Egypt

    • Fred Wendorf

    Pages 178-189

16. Nachikufan

    • Sheryl F. Miller

    Pages 190-196

17. Neolithic of Capsian

    • Colette Roubet

    Pages 197-219

18. North African Protohistoric

    • Thomas Wyrwoll

    Pages 220-238

19. Oldowan

    • Peter N. Peregrine

    Pages 239-244

20. Saharo-Sudanese Neolithic

    • Andrew Smith

    Pages 245-259

The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents also defined by a somewhat different set of an attempt to provide basic information sociocultural characteristics than are eth­ on all archaeologically known cultures, nological cultures. Major traditions are covering the entire globe and the entire defined based on common subsistence prehistory of humankind. It is designed as practices, sociopolitical organization, and a tool to assist in doing comparative material industries, but language, ideology, research on the peoples of the past. Most and kinship ties play little or no part in of the entries are written by the world's their definition because they are virtually foremost experts on the particular areas unrecoverable from archaeological con­ and time periods. texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and The Encyclopedia is organized accord­ kinship ties are central to defining ethno­ ing to major traditions. A major tradition logical cultures. is defined as a group of populations sharing There are three types of entries in the similar subsistence practices, technology, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, and forms of sociopolitical organization, the regional sub tradition entry, and the which are spatially contiguous over a rela­ site entry. Each contains different types of tively large area and which endure tempo­ information, and each is intended to be rally for a relatively long period. Minimal used in a different way.

• Middle Paleolithic
• holocene
• iron age
• late pleistocene
• paleolithic
• pleistocene
• prehistory

• Lawrence University, Appleton, USA

  Peter N. Peregrine

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