Architecture of first societies : a global perspective /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jarzombek, Mark (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2013
• Θέματα: Αρχιτεκτονική, Προϊστορική > Εγχειρίδια; Αρχαιότητες, Προϊστορικές > Εγχειρίδια; Κατοικίες, Προϊστορικές > Εγχειρίδια

"Starting with the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to the pre-Columbian American tribes, Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places throughout the world to form the built environment. Lookin...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• ntroduction
• Part one : Foundations
• The human world
• Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene societies
• Savanna and forest peoples today
• The great northern continuum : part I
• The great northern continuum : part II
• The mound and plaza societies of the Americas
• Plants, animals, and rituals
• The first agro-pastoral perspectives
• Part two : transitions
• Village and chiefdom worlds
• Expansion into Europe
• Emergence of Central and South American agriculture societies
• Cattle-tending societies
• The world of portable architecture
• The oceanic horticultural continuum
• African transformations
• Agro-centrism in North America
• Coda : encounters with modernity
• Index.