The First Civilizations: The Archaeology of Their Origins - Hardcover

Daniel, Glyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500050090 ISBN 13: 9780500050095

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1968

Synopsis

By analysing what Francis Bacon termed ¿remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time¿ Glyn Daniel describes the first civilizations from times of savagery and barbarism to the Sumerians, Egyptians, Chinese and Ancient Americans from 4000 BC to 1500 AD.

Did these civilizations develop from one centre and the process of civilization take place once, and once only, in human history, or did it occur independently in different parts of the world? Were these civilizations linked in any way? These and other questions are discussed by Dr Glyn Daniel in this classic account of the civilizations of the ancient world.

About this title

Book Description

An eminent archaeologist and prehistorian examines the earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley and China in the Old World; in Mexico, Ycatan and Peru in the New World

About the Author

Glyn Daniel was born in 1914. He graduated with first class honours from St John's College, Cambridge, and went on to obtain his PhD in 1938. He joined the RAF after the outbreak of the Second World War and served as an Intelligence Officer from 1940 to 1945. He returned to Cambridge after the war and was appointed Disney Professor of Archaeology in 1974. Glyn Daniel died in 1986.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0500050090
• ISBN 13: 9780500050095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208