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Renowned archaeologist David Wengrow creates here a vivid new account of the birth of civilization in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, bringing together within a unified history the first two nations where people created cities, kingdoms and monumental temples to the gods.
But civilization, Wengrow argues, is not exclusively about large-scale settlements and endeavors. Just as important are the ordinary but fundamental practices of everyday life, such as cooking, running a home, and cleaning the body. Tracing the development of such practices, from prehistoric times to the age of the pyramids, Wengrow reveals unsuspected connections between distant regions and provides new insights into the workings of societies we have come to regard as remote from our own.
CONTENTS:
Chronology chart
Introduction: A Clash of Civilizations?
PART I The Cauldron of Civilization
Camouflaged Borrowings
On the Trail of Blue-Haired Gods
Neolithic Worlds
The (First) Global Village
Origin of Cities
From the Ganges to the Danube: the Bronze Age
Cosmology and Commerce
The Labours of Kingship
PART II Forgetting the Old Regime
Enlightenment from a Dark Source
Ruined Regimes: Egypt at the Revolution
Conclusion: What Makes Civilization?