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2010

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	The Origin of civilization / the Teaching Company.
Edition:	Library ed.
Publisher, Date:	Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2010.
Description:	8 videodiscs (approximately 1440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (21 cm).
Summary:	A 48-lecture course that reveals the stories of how human beings around the world transitioned from small farming communities to the impressive cultural and political systems that would forever alter the course of history. Taking a gripping archaeological and historical approach to these formative states and civilizations, archaeologist and Professor Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College completes your understanding of the history of human civilization-by exploring it at its earliest stages.
Series:	Great courses, Ancient & Medieval history Great courses (DVD). Ancient & medieval history.
Subjects:	Civilization -- History. Culture -- Origin.
Genre:	Lectures. Nonfiction films. Educational films. Video recordings.
Other Author:	MacEachern, Scott. Teaching Company.
Notes:	Title from container. In 4 containers : each container has 2 DVDs and 1 course guidebook. Course guidebooks include professor biography, course scope, lecture outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography. Producer/editor, Jaimee M. Aigret ; directors, Jon Leven, Tom Dooley ; content supervisor, Maggie Lyons. Forty-eight lectures of thirty minutes each by Scott MacEachern, professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College. DVD format.
Contents:	Ancient states and civilizations ; The history of archaeological research ; Studying the origins of states ; Archaeological interpretation -- Catalhoyuk ; Stepping stones to civilization ; Trajectories of Cultural Development -- When is a state a state? ; A complex neolithic -- Halafian and Samarran ; Hierarchy and urbanism -- 'Ubaid Mesopotamia ; The Uruk world system ; Sumer and afterward ; Civilization and Pastoralism in Mesopotamia. The development of writing in Mesopotamia ; The gift of the Nile ; The Egyptian Predynastic Period ; The unification of upper and lower Egypt ; Divinity and display in Dynastic Egypt ; why so different? Mesopotamia and the Nile -- Borders and territories of Ancient States ; The Levantine Copper and Early Bronze Ages ; Hierarchy and society in the Aegean ; Early Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations ; Palace and Countryside on Crete ; How things fall apart -- The greek Dark Ages. First Farmers in the Indus Valley ; Cities along the Indus ; Seeing what we expect -- Power and display ; Sedentism and agriculture in early China ; State formation in Ancient China ; Origins of the Chinese writing system -- From human sacrifice to the Tao of Politics ; Spread of States in Mainland Southeast Asia ; Axumite Civilization in Ethiopia ; Inland Niger Delta -- Hierarchy and heterarchy ; Lake Chad Basin -- Settlement and complexity ; Great Zimbabwe and its successors. Sedentism and agriculture in MesoamericaI ; The Olmec of lowland Mexico ; Teotihuacan -- The first American city ; Beginnings of states in lowland Mesoamerica ; The Great May City -- States ; Epigraphy -- Changing views of the Maya -- Was there a Maya collapse? ; Adaptations in Pacific South America ; Pyramids and Precocity in coastal Peru ; Andean Civilization -- Chavin to Chimu ; The Florescence of the Inka Empire ; Ancient States -- Unity and Diversity?
ISBN:	9781598036237 1598036238 9781598036244 1598036246
Publisher Number:	3130
Other Number:	643491827
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	326703
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Call Number:	GREAT DVD 909 Origin o

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