Avenues to Antiquity

With introductions by Brian M. Fagan. — San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1976. — 334 p. — (Readings from Scientific American). — ISBN: 0-7167-0542-7.Designed as supplementary reading for introductory archaeology and world prehistories courses, this collection of thirty articles from Scientific American highlights the major controversies, discoveries, and research projects in New World and Old World archaeology. Avenues to Antiquity is organized chronologically, taking readers from discussions of the earliest humans to the Middle Ages. The articles demonstrate throughout the close interfaces among history, archaeology, and anthropology.Early Prehistory.The Idea of Man's Antiquity (Glyn E. Daniel).
Tools and Human Evolution (Sherwood L. Washburn).
Homo Erectus (William W. Howells).
A Paleolithic Camp at Nice (Henry de Lumley).
The Solutrean Culture (Philip E. L. Smith).
The Evolution of Paleolithic Art (Andre Leoroi-Gourhan).
Ice-Age Hunters of the Ukraine (Richard G. Klein).
The Prehistory of the Australian Aborigine (D. J. Mulvaney).
Early Americans.A Stone Age Campsite at the Gateway to America (Douglas D. Anderson).
Early Man in the Andes (Richard S. MacNeish).
A Paleo-Indian Bison Kill (Joe Ben Wheat).
Farmers and Peasants.An Early Farming Village in Turkey (Halet Cambel and Robert J. Braidwood).
Obsidian and the Origins of Trade (J. E. Dixon, J. R. Cann, and Colin Renfrew).
A Neolithic City in Turkey (James Mellaart).
An Early Neolithic Village in Greece (Robert J. Rodden).
An Earlier Agricultural Revolution (Wilhelm G. Solheim II).
The Origins of New World Civilization (Richard S. MacNeish).
Cities and Civilizations.The Origin of Cities (Robert M. Adams).
The Origin and Evolution of Cities (Gideon Sjoberg).
An Early City in Iran (C. C. and Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky).
The Beginnings of Wheeled Transport (Stuart Piggott).
Teotihuacan (Rene Milion).
Archaeology and Archaeological Issues.Carbon-14 and the Prehistory of Europe (Colin Renfrew).
Frozen Tombs of the Scythians (M. I. Artamonov).
The Coprolites of Man (Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr., and Glenna Williams-Dean).
The Planning of a Maya Ceremonial Center (Norman Hammond).
A Byzantine Trading Venture (George F. Bass).
The Excavation of a Drowned Greek Temple (Michael H. Jameson).
The Vikings (Eric Oxenstierna).
The Archaeology of Winchester (Martin Biddle).