Hawkes Jacquetta (ed.) The World of the Past. Volume 1

A Touchstone Book Published by Simon and Schuster, 1975. — 614 p. — SBN 671-22033-0.This now-famous anthology of the history of archaeology, first published in 1963, is here available in paperback for the first time. Here are some of the world's great archaeological discoveries in the words of those who made or interpreted them. Here are the wonder and excitement of the modern men and women who first gazed on such stirring memorials of the past as the cave paintings in France, the ruins of Babylon, and Tutankhamen's tomb, or first perceived the origin of man.
Fortunately, many archaeologists were gifted and lucid writers, but Jacquetta Hawkes, the editor of this anthology, has also included reports of observant lay travelers, from Herodotus to Amelia Edwards. In this volume, Miss Hawkes, herself a distinguished archaeologist, presents a panorama of the Old Stone Age and the Evolution of Man, the New Stone Age and the Beginnings of Farming, Mesopotamia and Palestine, and the Egyptian World, as well as some absorbing discussions of the pleasures and purposes of archaeology, some of its classical errors, and its modern techniques.
The editor's introduction, long enough to be a book in itself, and the introductory notes to the selections, together provide a consecutive history of archaeological discoveries and a vast spectacle of movement in time, of cultures and civilizations, each unique in form and style, each growing, flowering and dying.Introduction (Jacquetta Hawkes).About Archaeology.The Purpose of Archaeology (Grahame Clark).
The Ideal Archaeologist (Leonard Woolley).
The First Archaeological Deduction (Thucydides).
Some Early Archaeological Howlers (Stanley Casson).
Another Howler (Grahame Clark).
Respect for the Dead (Charles Wools).
Propriety on Excavations (J. P. Droop).
The Birth of an Archaeologist (Leonard Woolley).
Lawrence of Arabia as an Archaeologist (Leonard Woolley).
Bandits and Excavations (Leonard Woolley).
Flints as Contraband (O. G. S. Crawford).
How the Past Is Buried (Leonard Woolley).
Archaeological Ingenuities (Leonard Woolley).
Restoration: an Ivory Is Saved (H. J. Plenderleith).
Crop Marks: an Early Record (William Camden).
Archaeology from the Air (O. G. S. Crawford).
Dating by Radio-Active Carbon (Geoffrey Bibby).The Old Stone Age and the Evolution of Man.The First Discoveries: An Implement and an Elephant from Gray's Inn, London (John Bagford).
Flint Implements Discovered at Hoxne, in Suffolk (John Frere).
Cave Hunting in Germany (W. Boyd Dawkins).
An Early Cave Digger: MacEnery at Kent's Cavern (J. MacEnery, S. J.).
A Momentous Visit to the Somme (John Evans).
Men in the Ice Age: The First Proofs (Charles Lyell).
The Evidence of the Tools (John Lubbock (Lord Avebury).
A Doubting Thomas (W. Boyd Dawkins).
Huxley on Apes and Men (Thomas H. Huxley).
The Neanderthal Discovery (Charles Lyell).
Darwin on Man's Lowly Origin (Charles Darwin).
A Fundamentalist Opponent (Rev. Samuel Lysons).
England Under Ice (James Geikie).
Britain Before the Channel (John Evans).
Reindeer at Windsor (W. Boyd Dawkins).
The Old Man of Cro-Magnon (Arthur Keith).
Stag Hunters of Behistun (Carleton Coon).
Cave Art: Altamira Discovered (Paolo Graziosi).
Lascaux Discovered (Geoffrey Bibby).
Discovery of the Caves of Les Trois Freres and Le Tuc d'Audoubert (Abbe Henri Breuil).
Copying Cave Art (Abbe Henri Breuil).
Faith in Piltdown Man (Arthur Keith).
The Piltdown Affair (J. S. Weiner).
Hunter-Fishers of Yorkshire (Grahame Clark).The New Stone Age and the Beginnings of Farming.The Beginning of Farming: Jericho and Jarmo (Grahame Clark).
Belt Cave and the First Domestic Animals (Carleton Coon).
The Polished Stone Axe (John Evans).
The Swiss Lake Dwellings (Geoffrey Bibby).
First Farmers in Britain (Jacquetta Hawkes).
An Orkney Village (V. Gordon Childe).
The Form of Civilization (Hans Frankfort).
The Birth of Civilization: Egypt and Mesopotamia Compared (Hans Frankfort).Mesopotamia and Palestine.Assyria.
Layard's First Sight of Nineveh and Nimrud (Henry A. Layard).
Nimrud: Discovery and Removal of the Man-headed Beasts (Henry A. Layard).
Nimrud: "Idols and Eunuchs"—the Bas Reliefs (Henry A. Layard).
Nimrud: Misadventures of the Winged Lions (Henry A. Layard).
Nineveh: How Not to Excavate (Henry A. Layard).
Nineveh: A Visit from Rawlinson (Henry A. Layard).
Layard Goes to Petra (Henry A. Layard).
An Arab Dentist (Henry A. Layard).
Nineveh After Its Fall (C. J. Gadd).
Botta and the Palace of Sargon (P. E. Botta).
Babylon.
Babylon and Babylonia According to Herodotus (Herodotus).
Ruins of Babylon: The First Survey (Claudius Rich).
German Excavations at Babylon (Robert Koldewey).
The Hanging Gardens? (L. W. King).
Ur and the Sumerians.
Ur, Its Life and Times (Leonard Woolley).
The Ziggurat of Ur (Leonard Woolley).
Ur: A Crucial Inscription (Leonard Woolley).
Discovery of the Royal Tombs (Leonard Woolley).
The Queen's Tomb: Further Details (Leonard Woolley).
Ur: Sumerian Self-Portraits (C. J. Gadd).
The Last Days of Ur (C. J. Gadd).
Sumerian Sculpture (Seton Lloyd).
The Sumerian Legacy (Leonard Woolley).
Cuneiform: History and Texts.
The Early History of Cuneiform (S. N. Kramer).
The Decipherment of Cuneiform (Seton Lloyd).
George Smith and the Flood Tablet (George Smith).
The Sack of Lagash (L. W. King).
Gudea Builds a Temple at Lagash (L. W. King).
A Love Song (S. N. Kramer).
The Development of Excavation in Mesopotamia.
A History of Excavation in Mesopotamia (Seton Lloyd).
America Awakens (H. V. Hilprecht).
A Bad Beginning: Battle at Nippur (H. V. Hilprecht).
Before the Sumerians (Leonard Woolley).
Further Into the Past (Seton Lloyd).
Palestine.
Early Excavations in Jerusalem (Charles Warren).
Failure at Jericho (Charles Warren).
Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (J. M. Allegro).
The Monastery of Qumran (Edmund Wilson).
Solomon's Mines (Nelson Glueck).The Egyptian World.Travelling and Excavating.
Harlots and Pyramids (Richard Pococke).
With Napoleon's Army to Philae (Vivant Denon).
Journey to the Meroe Pyramids (G. A. Hoskins).
With Amelia Edwards to Abu Simbel (Amelia Edwards).
To the Turquoise Mines of Sinai (W. M. Flinders Petrie).
An Excavation by the Military (Wallis Budge).
Famous Discoveries.
A Windfall of Royal Mummies (Gaston Maspero).
The Parents of a Queen: the Tomb of Iuya and Tuyu (Theodore Davis).
The Tomb of Tutankhamen: the Opening of the Tomb (Howard Carter and A. C. Mace).
The Tomb of Tutankhamen: the Opening of the Coffins (Howard Carter and A. C. Mace).
Famous Monuments.
Pyramid-building According to Herodotus (Herodotus).
The Calife. The Englishman and the Pyramid of Cheops (John Greaves).
In Egypt and Nubia (William Brockedon).
Petrie and the Great Pyramid (W. M. Flinders Petrie).
A History of the Pyramids (I. E. S. Edwards).
Life in Egypt.
The Peasant and the Official (Wallis Budge).
Egypt According to Herodotus (Herodotus).
Egyptian Houses (Gaston Maspero).
Egyptian Art (Gaston Maspero).
Everyday Things (J. G. Wilkinson).
Hieroglyphs and Other Writing (Alan Gardiner).
Death in Egypt.
Burial Rites According to Herodotus (Herodotus).
Embalmment, Mummification, Burial: the Story of an Interment (Wallis Budge).
Tomb Robbers and Mummies (G. Eliot Smith).
Mummies and Mortality (Wallis Budge).
Religion and Morality.
The New Morality of the Feudal Age (J. H. Breasted).
Faith and Revolution: Akhenaten (J. H. Breasted).