Two archaeologists trace the development of ancient civilizations and discuss how and why these civilizations collapsed

The Making of Civilization: History Discovered Through Archaeology

History

Wilkins, John

Whitehouse, Ruth

World

HarperCollins, Publishers

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

McGraw=Hill

Lightly Used Softcover Edition published by Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y., 1986, 207 pages in Very Good Condition. Front Cover shows some minor wear along the corner tips. Back Cover does has a crease on the lower corner. Text is clean and unmarked with no rips, tears, creases, loose or bent pages. Spine is firm and uncreased. PLEASE SEE THE 13 PHOTOS THAT I POSTED ON THE PRODUCT PAGE OF THIS BOOK. A colorful and fascinating book filled with color & black and white photographs along with a lively, authoritative text written by two expert professional archaeologists, Dr. Wilkins and Dr. Whitehouse. Well-researched with an impressive body of work from years of excavating, surveying, searching through ruins, comparing and speculating, this book is an ideal introduction into historical archaeology and our distant past. A fascinating exploration on why civilizations collapse and die. A truly fascinating and comprehensive edition. We ship within 24 hours of your purchase with a Delivery Confirmation.

The Making of Civilization - History Discovered Through Archaeology

Philosophy

Alfred.A. Knopf

Two archaeologists trace the development of ancient civilizations and discuss how and why these civilizations collapsed

Making of Civilization

Ancient Civilizations

KNOPF

Archaeological Atlas of the World [Apr 04, 1977] Whitehouse, David and Whitehouse, Ruth

Archaeological Atlas of the World

WHITEHOUSE, David

Reference

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

English Text.London, 1977; hardback, pp. 210, b/w and col. ill., cm 17x24.

The First Cities

E.P.Dutton

The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings. This book takes a more holistic approach that looks not only at content, but also the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions and the materiality of their 'supports': the artefacts and monuments on which the inscriptions occur. The first writing in Italy was not a local invention, but was introduced by the Phoenicians and Greeks in the 9th-8th centuries BCE. It was taken up by number of indigenous communities over the subsequent centuries to write their own languages, before these were eventually submerged by the spread of Latin. In a series of theoretical, methodological and interpretative essays, Ruth Whitehouse explores what can be learned about how writing was used by these communities and what it meant to them. The bodies of data considered relate to Venetic and Raetic (the northeast), Lepontic (the northwest), Messapic (the southeast) and Etruscan (west central Italy, extending also into Campania in the south and the Po plain in the north). While not a comprehensive survey, there are enough different groups to allow a comparative approach to be adopted. Analysis of the datasets is able to reveal the similarities and differences between them, as well as identify features that were widespread in 1st-millennium-BCE Italy and others that were more idiosyncratic and specific to particular cultural groups. Placing materiality at the centre of study allows a reconsideration of the roles writing played in the lives of the individuals and groups who occupied Italy in the 1st millennium BCE.

Writing Matters: Italy in the First Millennium BCE (UCL World Archaeology Series)

Americas

Bloomsbury Academic

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