Table of Contents

List of maps; List of tables; List of text-figures; Preface; 1. The geological ages D. L. Linton, and F. Moseley; 2. Physical conditions in eastern europe, western asia and egypt before the period of agricultural and urban settlement K. W. Butzer; 3a. Primitive man in egypt, western asia and eurpoe in palaeolithic times Dorothy A. E. Garrod; 3b. In mesolithic times J. G. D. Clark; 4. The evidence of language W. F. Albright and T. O. Lambdin; 5. The earliest populations of man in europe, western asia and northern Africa D. R. Hughes and D. R. Brothwell; 6. Chronology I. Egypt - to the end of the twentieth dynasty William C. Hayes; II. Ancient Western Asia M. B. Rowton; III. The aegean bronze age Frank H. Stubbings; 7. (a) The earliest settlements in western asia from the ninth to the end of the fifth millennium BC (b) Anatolia before 4000 BC J. Mellaart; 8. The development of cities from al - 'ubaid to the end of uruk 5' Max E. L. Mallowan; 9. (a) Predynastic egypt Elise J. Baumgartel (b) Palestine during the neolithic and chalcolithic periods R. de vaux, O. P. (c) Cyprus in the neolithic and chalcolithic periods H. W. Catling; 10. The stone age in the aegean S. S. Weinberg; Bibliographies; Index to maps; General index.

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Provides an account of what is known about the remotest geological ages, comprising chapters on the different kinds of evidence concerning man and his physical environment.