Braidwood, Robert J. 1907-2003,

Courses toward urban life : archeological considerations of some cultural alternates. / Edited by Robert J. Braidwood and Gordon R. Willey. - Chicago : Aldine Pub. Co., [1962] - ix, 371 p. : illus., maps. ; 27 cm. - Viking Fund publications in anthropology, no. 32 .

"The contents of this volume result from a symposium held at the European headquarters of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, July 3-11, 1960." --The Lower Rhine Basin, by H.T. Waterbolk.--Northern continental Europe, by H. Schwabedissen.--The temperate zone of continental Asia, by A.P. Okladnikov.--Eastern North America, by J.R. Caldwell.--Northern Europe, by C.-A. Moberg.--Conclusions and afterthoughts, by R.J. Braidwood and G.R. Willey.

Includes bibliographies.

Africa south of the Sahara, by J.D. Clark.--The intermediate area, Amazonia, and the Caribbean area, by I. Rouse.--India, by H.D. Sankalia.--Mesoamerica, by G.R. Willey.--The greater American Southwest, by E.W. Haury.--Southwestern Asia beyond the lands of the Mediterranean littoral, by R.J. Braidwood and B. Howe.--Palestine, Syria, Cilicia, by J. Perrot.--The central Andes, by D. Collier.--China, by Kwang-chih Chang.--The first ground-plan of an Upper Paleolithic loess settlement in Middle Europe and its meaning, by B. Klíma.--Southern Middle Europe and Southeastern Europe, by R. Pittioni.


Prehistoric peoples--Congresses.

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