Architecture of first societies : a global perspective

1. Verfasser: Jarzombek, Mark, , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2013]
Umfang/Format: xi, 660 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Part one : Foundations
  • The human world
  • Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene societies
  • Savanna and forest peoples today
  • The great northern continuum : part I
  • The great northern continuum : part II
  • The mound and plaza societies of the Americas
  • Plants, animals, and rituals
  • The first agro-pastoral perspectives
  • Part two : transitions
  • Village and chiefdom worlds
  • Expansion into Europe
  • Emergence of Central and South American agriculture societies
  • Cattle-tending societies
  • The world of portable architecture
  • The oceanic horticultural continuum
  • African transformations
  • Agro-centrism in North America
  • Coda : encounters with modernity
  • Index.