- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: In the Beginning [Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky]
- 1. Ancient China and Its Anthropological Significance [Kwang-chih Chang]
- 2. The Near Eastern “Breakout” and the Mesopotamian Social Contract [C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky]
- 3. Ancient Chinese, New World, and Near Eastern Ideological Traditions: Some Observations [Gordon R. Willey]
- 4. On Theories of Order and Justice in the Development of Civilization [David H. P. Maybury-Lewis]
- 5. Sacred Landscape and Maya Kingship [Linda Schele]
- 6. The Indo-European Origins of the Concept of a Democratic Society [Mason Hammond]
- 7. How Was Ancient Israel Different? [William G. Dever]
- 8. Absolutism and Reciprocity in Ancient Egypt [Mark Lehner]
- 9. Harappan Beginnings [Gregory L. Possehl]
- 10. Orientalism and Near Eastern Archaeology [Mogens Trolle Larsen]
- Index
PEABODY MUSEUM MONOGRAPHS
Peabody Museum Monographs 9
The Breakout
The Origins of Civilization
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$25.00 • £21.95 • €22.95
ISBN 9780873659109
Publication Date: 05/25/2000
152 pages
7 x 10 inches
12 halftones, 18 line illustrations, 4 maps
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