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1. Introducing World Prehistory. PART I: BEGINNINGS. 2. Human Origins. 3. Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. PART II: THE GREAT DIASPORA: THE SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS (45,000 YEARS AGO TO MODERN TIMES). 4. Europeans and Northern Asians. 5. Intensification and Complexity. 6. The First Americans. 7. Africans and Australians. PART III: FARMERS (c. 10,000 B.C. TO MODERN TIMES). 8. A Plenteous Harvest: The Origins. 9. The Origins of Food Production in Southwest Asia. 10. Early European Farmers. 11. Early Farmers of Africa and the Nile. 12. Rice, Roots, and Ocean Voyagers. 13. The Story of Maize: Early Farming Societies in the Americas. PART IV: OLD WORLD CIVILIZATIONS (c. 3000 B.C. TO MODERN TIMES). 14. The Development of Civilization. 15. Early Southwest Asian Civilizations. 16. Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. 17. Early States in South and Southeast Asia. 18. Shang Civilization in East Asia. 19. Anatolia, Greece, and Italy. 20. Temperate Europe before the Romans. PART V: NATIVE AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS (2000 B.C. TO A.D. 1534). 21. Mesoamerican Civilizations. 22. Andean States. Bibliography of World Prehistory.