The Origins of civilization / edited by P. R. S. Moorey.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Wolfson College lectures ; 1978.
Other Authors: Moorey, P. R. S. (Peter Roger Stuart), 1937-
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1979.
Series:Wolfson College lectures ; 1978.
Subjects:
Civilization, Ancient.
Protohistory.
Physical Description:xv, 165 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Primitive man as hunter, fisher, forager, and farmer / Grahame Clark
  • Early urban communities in the Near East, c.9000-3400 BC / James Mellaart
  • Early towns in Europe? / Stuart Piggott
  • City in ancient China / William Watson
  • From village to city in Mesoamerica / Warwick Bray
  • Religious development of some early Societies / N.K. Sandars
  • Origin and dissemination of writing in Western Asia / David Hawkins..