Ncient Ochres

The Usage of Ochre at the Verge of Neolithisation from the Near East to the Carpathian Basin

This volume explores the cultural meaning of ochre among the societies of the Late Epipalaeolithic/Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic from the Levant to the Carpathian Basin.

Ancient Preludes 3rd

Contents: Part I -- How Can We Know of Prehistory: Introduction to the Study of the Past; Ancient Tools, Fossils, and the Rise of Scientific Prehistory; Establishing Relative Sequences of Ancient Events; Absolute or Chronometric Dating; Basic Field Methods in Ancient Studies.; Part II -- Pre-History: Humankind in Deep Time: Deep Time and Evolution; Hominid Evolution in the Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs; The Late Pleistocene Epoch in the Old World; The Late Pleistocene Epoch in the New World; The Holocene Epoch and the Mesolithic Interlude.; Part III -- Precludes to the Present: The Origins of Agriculture; The Rise of Civilisation in the Old World: The Example of Egypt; The Rise of Civilisation in the New World.

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