The origin of civilization / Scott MacEachern.

Course No. 3130
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In 4 containers : each container has 2 DVDs and 1 course guidebook.
Course guidebooks include professor biography, course scope, lecture outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1 Ancient states and civilizations ; Lecture 2 The history of archaeological research ; Lecture 3 Studying the origins of states ; Lecture 4 Archaeological interpretation --
Catalhoyuk ; Lecture 5 Stepping stones to civilization ; Lecture 6 Trajectories of Cultural Development --
Disc 2. Lecture 7 When is a state a state? ; Lecture 8 A complex neolithic --
Halafian and Samarran ; Lecture 9 Hierarchy and urbanism --
'Ubaid Mesopotamia ; Lecture 10 The Uruk world system ; Lecture 11 Sumer and afterward ; Lecture 12 Civilization and Pastoralism in Mesopotamia. Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13 The development of writing in Mesopotamia ; Lecture 14 The gift of the Nile ; Lecture 15 The Egyptian Predynastic Period ; Lecture 16 The unification of upper and lower Egypt ; Lecture 17 Divinity and display in Dynastic Egypt ; Lecture 18 why so different? Mesopotamia and the Nile --
Disc 4. Lecture 19 Borders and territories of Ancient States ; Lecture 20 The Levantine Copper and Early Bronze Ages ; Lecture 21 Hierarchy and society in the Aegean ; Lecture 22 Early Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations ; Lecture 23 Palace and Countryside on Crete ; Lecture 24 How things fall apart --
The greek Dark Ages. Part 3: Disc 5. Lecture 25 First Farmers in the Indus Valley ; Lecture 26 Cities along the Indus ; Lecture 27 Seeing what we expect --
Power and display ; Lecture 28 Sedentism and agriculture in early China ; Lecture 29 State formation in Ancient China ; Lecture 30 Origins of the Chinese writing system --
Disc 6. Lecture 31 From human sacrifice to the Tao of Politics ; Lecture 32 Spread of States in Mainland Southeast Asia ; Lecture 33 Axumite Civilization in Ethiopia ; Lecture 34 Inland Niger Delta --
Hierarchy and heterarchy ; Lecture 35 Lake Chad Basin --
Settlement and complexity ; Lecture 36 Great Zimbabwe and its successors. Part 4: Disc 7. Lecture 37 Sedentism and agriculture in MesoamericaI ; Lecture 38 The Olmec of lowland Mexico ; Lecture 39 Teotihuacan --
The first American city ; Lecture 40 Beginnings of states in lowland Mesoamerica ; Lecture 41 The Great May City --
States ; Lecture 42 Epigraphy --
Changing views of the Maya --
Disc 8. Lecture 43 Was there a Maya collapse? ; Lecture 44 Adaptations in Pacific South America ; Lecture 45 Pyramids and Precocity in coastal Peru ; Lecture 46 Andean Civilization --
Chavin to Chimu ; Lecture 47 The Florescence of the Inka Empire ; Lecture 48 Ancient States --
Unity and Diversity?

A 48-lecture course that reveals the stories of how human beings around the world transitioned from small farming communities to the impressive cultural and political systems that would forever alter the course of history. Taking a gripping archaeological and historical approach to these formative states and civilizations, archaeologist and Professor Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College completes your understanding of the history of human civilization{u2014}by exploring it at its earliest stages.