The First Cities (Time-Life Emergence of Man).pdf

Time-Life | 1973 | Pdf | Eng | 160 pag | 32.3 MB

Man's curiosity about his origins inevitably leads him to ask how cities began. When, where and what were the first ones like, and why did they arise? What processes in the past were involved in man's transition from a hunter and gatherer to village dweller and eventually to citizen? In an attempt to find answers to these questions, 19th Century archeologists turned their attention to the cities of the Egyptian, Persian, Babylonian and Classical civilizations. But only since the Second World War have scholars begun to consider more seriously the prehistoric cities—the true first cities—on which these later civilizations were built. The new investigators have traced city life to at least 8000 B.C. and have, as well, greatly expanded its geographical range throughout Western Asia.
This book reviews the dramatic advances they have made in recent years.