The origin of civilization
(DVD)

Disc 1. Lecture 1 Ancient states and civilizations ; Lecture 2 The history of archaeological research ; Lecture 3 Studying the origins of states ; Lecture 4 Archaeological interpretation - Çatalhöyük ; Lecture 5 Stepping stones to civilization ; Lecture 6 Trajectories of Cultural Development --

Disc 2. Lecture 7 When is a state a state? ; Lecture 8 A complex neolithic - Halafian and Samarran ; Lecture 9 Hierarchy and urbanism - 'Ubaid Mesopotamia ; Lecture 10 The Uruk world system ; Lecture 11 Sumer and afterward ; Lecture 12 Civilization and Pastoralism in Mesopotamia --

Disc 3. Lecture 13 The development of writing in Mesopotamia ; Lecture 14 The gift of the Nile ; Lecture 15 The Egyptian Predynastic Period ; Lecture 16 The unification of upper and lower Egypt ; Lecture 17 Divinity and display in Dynastic Egypt ; Lecture 18 why so different? Mesopotamia and the Nile --

Disc 4. Lecture 19 Borders and territories of Ancient States ; Lecture 20 The Levantine Copper and Early Bronze Ages ; Lecture 21 Hierarchy and society in the Aegean ; Lecture 22 Early Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations ; Lecture 23 Palace and Countryside on Crete ; Lecture 24 How things fall apart - The Greek Dark Ages --

Disc 5. Lecture 25 First Farmers in the Indus Valley ; Lecture 26 Cities along the Indus ; Lecture 27 Seeing what we expect - Power and display ; Lecture 28 Sedentism and agriculture in early China ; Lecture 29 State formation in Ancient China ; Lecture 30 Origins of the Chinese writing system --

Disc 6. Lecture 31 From human sacrifice to the Tao of Politics ; Lecture 32 Spread of States in Mainland Southeast Asia ; Lecture 33 Axumite Civilization in Ethiopia ; Lecture 34 Inland Niger Delta - Hierarchy and heterarchy ; Lecture 35 Lake Chad Basin - Settlement and complexity ; Lecture 36 Great Zimbabwe and its successors --

Disc 7. Lecture 37 Sedentism and agriculture in MesoamericaI ; Lecture 38 The Olmec of lowland Mexico ; Lecture 39 Teotihuacan - The first American city ; Lecture 40 Beginnings of states in lowland Mesoamerica ; Lecture 41 The Great May City - States ; Lecture 42 Epigraphy - Changing views of the Maya --

Disc 8. Lecture 43 Was there a Maya collapse? ; Lecture 44 Adaptations in Pacific South America ; Lecture 45 Pyramids and Precocity in coastal Peru ; Lecture 46 Andean Civilization - Chavin to Chimu ; Lecture 47 The Florescence of the Inka Empire ; Lecture 48 Ancient States - Unity and Diversity?