The age of the gods : a study in the origins of culture in prehistoric Europe and the ancient near east /
"When first published in 1928, The Age of the Gods was hailed as the best short account of what is known of pre-historic man and culture. In it, Christopher Dawson synthesized modern scholarship on human cultures in Europe and the East from the Stone Age to the beginnings of the Iron Age. His f...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, District of Columbia :
Catholic University of America Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Dawson, Christopher, 1889-1970. Works. 2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Glacial Age and the Beginnings of Human Life in Europe
- II. Later Paleolithic Culture and the Religion of the Hunter
- III. Dawn of the Neolithic Age and the Rise of the Peasant Culture in Europe
- IV. Asia and the Origins of the Higher Civilisation
- V. Neolithic Culture and the Religion of the Peasant
- VI. City State and the Development of the Sumerian Culture
- VII. Archaic Culture in Egypt and the Development of the Great State
- VIII. Dawn of the Higher Civilisation in Europe: Crete and the Ægean Culture
- IX. Origins of the Megalithic Culture and Its Expansion in Western Europe
- X. Spain and the Later Development of the Megalithic Culture in Western Europe
- XI. Warrior Peoples and the Decline of the Archaic Civilisation
- XII. Nordic Culture and the Origins of the Warrior Peoples in Europe
- XIII. Age of Empire in the Near East: Egypt, Asia Minor, and Syria
- XIV. Bronze Age in Central Europe and the Formation of the Indo-European Peoples
- XV. Mycenæan Culture of Greece and the Age of the Invasions
- XVI. Italy and the Beginnings of the Iron Age in Europe.