People of the earth : an introduction to world prehistory - Fagan, Brian M. (Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall/Pearson, 2010)
1: Beginnings : 7 million to 40,000 years ago -- Human origins: 7 mi llion to 1.9 million years ago -- Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens : 1.9 million to 40,000 years ago -- 2: The great diaspora: th e spread of modern humans : 45,000 years ago to modern times -- Europe and Eurasia: c. 40,000 to 8000 B.C. -- The first Americans: ?14,000 B.C . to modern times -- Africans and Australians: 45,000 years ago to mode rn times -- Intensification and complexity: before 10,000 B.C. to moder n times -- 3: First farmers : c. 10,000 B.C. to modern times -- Agricul ture and animal domestication -- The origins of food production to Sout hwest Asia -- The first European farmers -- First farmers in Egypt and tropical Africa -- Asia and the Pacific: rice, roots, and ocean voyages -- The story of maize: early farmers in the Americas -- 4: Old world c ivilizations : c. 3000 B.C. to modern times -- The development of civil ization -- Early civilizations in Southwest Asia -- Egypt, Nubia, and A frica -- Early states in South and Southeast Asia -- Early Chinese civi lization -- Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans -- Europe before the Roma ns -- 5: Native American civilizations : before 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1534 -- Mesoamerican civilizations -- Andean civilizations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Prehistoric peoples; Civilization, Ancient