Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76333-2 - The Cambridge World History: Volume I: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE Edited by David Christian Frontmatter More information the cambridge world history * volume i Volume i of The Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 bce. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and defined world history scholarship across the world and right up to the present day. Chapters examine the historiographical devel- opment of the field globally, periodization, divergence and con- vergence, belief and knowledge, technology and innovation, family, gender, anthropology, migration, and fire. Part II surveys the vast Paleolithic era, which laid the foundations for human history, and concentrates on the most recent phases of hominin evolution, the rise of Homo sapiens and the very earliest human societies through to the end of the last ice age. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historical linguists, and historians examine climate and tools, language, and culture, as well as offering regional perspectives from across the world. David Christian is Professor of History at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, and co-founder with Bill Gates of the Big History Project. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76333-2 - The Cambridge World History: Volume I: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE Edited by David Christian Frontmatter More information the cambridge world history The Cambridge World History is an authoritative new overview of the dynamic field of world history. It covers the whole of human history, not simply history since the development of written records, in an expanded time frame that represents the latest thinking in world and global history. With over two hundred essays, it is the most comprehensive account yet of the human past, and it draws on a broad international pool of leading academics from a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Reflecting the increasing awareness that world history can be examined through many different approaches and at varying geographic and chronological scales, each volume offers regional, topical, and comparative essays alongside case studies that provide depth of coverage to go with the breadth of vision that is the distinguish- ing characteristic of world history. Editor-in-chief Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Editorial Board Graeme Barker, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University Craig Benjamin, Department of History, Grand Valley State University Jerry Bentley, Department of History, University of Hawaii David Christian, Department of Modern History, Macquarie University Ross Dunn, Department of History, San Diego State University Candice Goucher, Department of History, Washington State University Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Department of Modern History, Monash University Alan Karras, International and Area Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley Benjamin Z. Kedar, Department of History, Hebrew University © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76333-2 - The Cambridge World History: Volume I: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE Edited by David Christian Frontmatter More information John R. 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Edward Wang, Department of History, Rowan University Norman Yoffee, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan; Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76333-2 - The Cambridge World History: Volume I: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE Edited by David Christian Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76333-2 - The Cambridge World History: Volume I: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE Edited by David Christian Frontmatter More information THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY * VOLUME I Introducing World History, to 10,000 bce * Edited by DAVID CHRISTIAN Macquarie University © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76333-2 - The Cambridge World History: Volume I: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE Edited by David Christian Frontmatter More information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521763332 © Cambridge University Press 2015 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2015 Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd., Padstow, Cornwall A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data The Cambridge world history. volumes cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: v. 1. Introducing world history (to 10,000 BCE) / edited by David Christian, Macquarie University – v. 2. A world with agriculture, 12,000 bce-400 ce – v. 3. Early cities and compara- tive history, 4000 bce-1200 ce / edited by Norman Yoffee, University of Michigan – v. 4. A world with states, empires, and networks, 1200 bce-900 ce / edited by Craig Benjamin, Grand Valley State University – v. 5. Expanding webs of exchange and conquest, 500 ce-1500 ce – v. 6, pt. 1. The construction of a global world, 1400–1800 ce: Foundations – v. 6, pt. 2. The construction of a global world, 1400–1800 ce: Patterns of change – v. 7, pt. 1. Production, destruction, and connection, 1750- present : Structures, spaces, and boundary making – v. 7, pt. 2. Production, destruction, and connection, 1750-present: Shared transformations. isbn 978-0-521-76333-2 (v. 1: Hardback : alk. Paper) – isbn 978-0-521-19008-4 (v. 3: Hardback : alk. paper) – isbn 978-1-107-01572-2 (v. 4: Hardback : alk. paper) 1. World history. d20.c195 2014 909–dc23 2014026364 isbn 978-0-521-76333-2 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76333-2 - The Cambridge World History: Volume I: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE Edited by David Christian Frontmatter More information Contents List of figures x List of maps xii List of table xiii List of contributors xiv Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi 1 Á Introduction and overview 1 david christian part i: HISTORIOGRAPHY, METHOD, AND THEMES 2 Á Writing world history 41 marnie hughes-warrington 3 Á The evolution of world histories 56 dominic sachsenmaier 4 Á Evolution, rupture, and periodization 84 michael lang 5 Á From divergence to convergence: centrifugal and centripetal forces in history 110 david r. northrup 6 Á Belief, knowledge, and language 132 luke clossey vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76333-2 - The Cambridge World History: Volume I: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE Edited by David Christian Frontmatter More information contents 7 Á Historiography of technology and innovation 165 daniel r. headrick 8 Á Fire and fuel in human history 185 johan goudsblom 9 Á Family history and world history: from domestication to Biopolitics 208 mary jo maynes and ann waltner 10 Á Gendered world history 234 merry e. wiesner-hanks 11 Á What does anthropology contribute to world history? 261 jack goody 12 Á Migration in human history 277 patrick manning part ii: THE PALEOLITHIC AND THE BEGINNINGS OF HUMAN HISTORY 13 Á Before the farmers: culture and climate from the emergence of Homo sapiens to about ten thousand years Ago 313 felipe ferna´ ndez-armesto 14 Á Early humans: tools, language, and culture 339 christopher ehret 15 Á Africa from 48,000 to 9500 bce 362 christopher ehret 16 Á Migration and innovation in palaeolithic europe 394 john f. hoffecker 17 Á Asian Palaeolithic dispersals 414 robin dennell viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76333-2 - The Cambridge World History: Volume I: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE Edited by David Christian Frontmatter More information Contents 18 Á The Pleistocene colonization and occupation of Australasia 433 peter hiscock