Library Record

Metadata

Title

The world of the past

Author

Hawkes, Jacquetta, 1910-1996, ed.

Call#

913.082 H39 v.1-2

Published Date

1963

Published Place

New York

Publisher

Knopf

Physical Description

2 v. : ill.
Includes indexes.

Summary

V.1: About archaeology. The old stone age and the evolution of man. The new stone age and the beginning of farming. Mesopotamia and Palestine. The Egyptian world.--V.2: Asia Minor, Greece and Italy: the classical world and its background. India, China and elsewhere. Britain and Europe. America.

Subjects

Archaeology -- History.
Civilization, Ancient.
Prehistoric peoples.