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List of maps; List of tables; List of text-figures; Preface; 1. Thegeological ages D. L. Linton, and F. Moseley; 2. Physical conditions ineastern europe, western asia and egypt before the period of agricultural andurban settlement K. W. Butzer; 3a. Primitive man in egypt, western asia andeurpoe 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 AfricaD. R. Hughes and D. R. Brothwell; 6. Chronology I. Egypt - to the end of thetwentieth dynasty William C. Hayes; II. Ancient Western Asia M. B. Rowton;III. The aegean bronze age Frank H. Stubbings; 7. (a) The earliestsettlements in western asia from the ninth to the end of the fifth millenniumBC (b) Anatolia before 4000 BC J. Mellaart; 8. The development of cities fromal - 'ubaid to the end of uruk 5' Max E. L. Mallowan; 9. (a) Predynasticegypt Elise J. Baumgartel (b) Palestine during the neolithic and chalcolithicperiods R. de vaux, O. P. (c) Cyprus in the neolithic and chalcolithicperiods H. W. Catling; 10. The stone age in the aegean S. S. Weinberg;Bibliographies; Index to maps; General index.