The Cambridge World Prehistory: Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific: Part I. Introduction: 1. History of world prehistory; 2. Chronology; 3. Climatic change; 4. Traditional themes; 5. DNA; 6. Language; Part II. Africa: 7. Early hominins; 8. Earliest industries; 9. The human revolution; 10. Homo fossils; 11. Middle Stone Age of Subsaharan Africa; 12. Late Stone Age of Southern Africa; 13. North Africa; 14. West Africa; 15. Central Africa; 16. Southern Africa; 17. East Africa and Madagascar and the Emergence of Northeast African states; 18. Neolithic and Predynastic Egypt; 19. Emergence of the Egyptian state; 20. Summary of dynastic Egypt; 21. Summary of Classical and post-Classical Africa; 22. Languages; Part III. South and Southeast Asia: 23. Palaeolithic of South Asia; 24. Pre-Upper Palaeolithic Southeast Asia, including Flores; 25. DNA; 26. Upper Palaeolithic of Southeast Asia; 27. Food production in India and Sri Lanka; 28. Harappan; 29

"The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa 2 million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. Written by a team of leading international scholars, the volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches, such as archaeolinguistics and molecular genetics and examine the essential questions of human development around the world. The volumes are organized geographically, exploring the evolution of hominins and their expansion from Africa, as well as the formation of states and development in each region of different technologies such as seafaring, metallurgy and food production. The Cambridge World Prehistory reveals a rich and complex history of the world. It will be an invaluable resource for any student or scholar of archaeology and related disciplines looking to research a particular topic, tradition, region or period within prehistory"--