The First Civilizations: The Archaeology Of The Origins

Glyn Daniel describes the first civilisations from times of savagery and barbarism to the Sumerians, Egyptians, Chinese and Ancient Americans from 4000 BC to 1500 AD.

A classic work, first published in 1968, this is the eminent archaeologist and pre-historian's examination of the earliest civilisations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley and China in the Old World, and Mexico, Yucatan and Peru in the New World.

Did these civilisations develop from one centre and the process of civilisation take place only once, or did it occur independently in different parts of the world? Were these civilisations linked in any way? Dr Glyn Daniel addresses these questions, avoiding the Eurocentric perspective of many similar works.