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Peter N. Peregrine
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Lawrence University, Appleton, USA
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Melvin Ember
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Human Relations Area Files/Yale University, New Haven, USA
A comprehensive overview of human history from two million years ago to the historic period
Employ's comparable units of description and analysis, making them easy to use and compare
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Table of contents (38 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages N2-xxxii
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- Vasant Shinde, Shweta Sinha Deshpande
Pages 34-39
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- Bhuvan Vikrama, Umesh Chattopadhyaya
Pages 127-132
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- Bhuvan Vikrama, Umesh Chattopadhyaya
Pages 133-137
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About this book
The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory ofhumankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries. but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship tics play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and lime periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord· texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties arc central to defining ethno is defined as a group ofpopulations sharing logical cultures. similar subsistence practices. technology, There are three types of entries in the and forms oj sociopolitical organizati01I, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry.
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"Taking as its purpose 'to provide basic information on all archaeologically known cultures,' the set treats each major cultural region of the planet individually, with entries contributed by an international array of experts. Entries are divided into four sections -- a discussion of the time during which the cutlure flourished, geographic location, diagnostic traits as known from the archaeological record (with subtraditions demarcated as identified), and representative sites -- followed by a list of references." (Choice, 41:6)
Editors and Affiliations
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Lawrence University, Appleton, USA
Peter N. Peregrine
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Human Relations Area Files/Yale University, New Haven, USA
Melvin Ember
