With introductions by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky. — San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1979. — 306 p. — (Readings from Scientific American). — ISBN: 0-7167-1073-0.
"This volume of selected readings from Scientific American replaces the earlier one entitled
Old World Archaeology: Foundations of Civilization".
Palaeolithic Hunters and Gatherers.The Idea of Man's Antiquity
(Glyn E. Daniel).Stone Tools and Human Behavior
(Sally R. Binford and Lewis R. Binford).The Food-Sharing Behavior of Protohuman Hominids
(Glynn Isaac).The Evolution of Paleolithic Art
(Andre Leroi-Gourhan).Stone-Age Man on the Nile
(Philip E. L. Smith).A Paleolithic Camp at Nice
(Henry de Lumley).Shanidar Cave
(Ralph S. Solecki).Isimila: A Paleolithic Site in Africa
(F. Clark Howell).Neolithic Villagers and Farmers.The Agricultural Revolution
(Robert J. Braidwood).An Earlier Agricultural Revolution
(Wilhelm G. Solheim II).Obsidian and the Origins of Trade
(J. E. Dixon, J. R. Cann, and Colin Renfrew).Ancient Jericho
(Kathleen M. Kenyon).A Neolithic City in Turkey
(James Mellaart).17,000 Years of Greek Prehistory
(Thomas W. Jacobsen).An Early Farming Village in Turkey
(Halet Cambel and Robert J. Braidwood).The Earliest Precursor of Writing
(Denise Schmandt-Besserat).Bronze Age Cities and Civilizations.The Origin of Cities
(Robert M. Adams).The Sumerians
(Samuel Noah Kramer).The Decline of the Harappans
(George F. Dales).A Forgotten Civilization of the Persian Gulf
(P. V. Glob and T. G. Bibby).An Early City in Iran
(C. C. and Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky).The Tombs of the First Pharaohs
(Walter B. Emery).Life in Mycenaean Greece
(John Chadwick).An Assyrian Trading Outpost
(Tahsin Ozguc).European Communities: Neolithic to Medieval.Prehistoric Swiss Lake Dwellers
(Hansjurgen Muller-Beck).Carbon 14 and the Prehistory of Europe
(Colin Renfrew).The Tartaria Tablets
(M. S. F. Hood).Stonehenge
(Jacquetta Hawkes).The Archaeology of Winchester
(Martin Biddle).How the Iron Age Began
(Robert Maddin, James D. Muhly and Tamara S. Wheeler).