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Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2009
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1 See the new Propyläen Weltgeschichte, ed. Heuss, A. and Mann, G., Vol. I (Berlin, Frankfurt, Wien 1961);Google Scholar and Historia Mundi, Vol. I, ed. Valjavec, Fr., Albright, W.F. et al. (Bern, 1952).Google Scholar
2 P. 106.
3 P. 106.
4 P. 107.
5 P. 47.
6 P. 49.
7 Bern, 1952, pp. 78–82.
8 P. 215.
9 P. 271 for instance.
10 P. 280.
11 Note 1, p. 214.
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13 Woolley defines civilization as meaning urban culture. Cf. pp. 359–360.
14 P. 255.
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17 P. 367.
18 Pp. 385–386; p. 396.
19 Pp. 382–383.
20 Miriam Lichtheim, op. cit., pp. 35 f.
21 Woolley criticizes Gardiner, A.H., Egypt of the Pharaohs (Oxford 1961),Google Scholar in the text but neither the notes nor the bibliography prepared by the editors mention Gardiner.
22 Examples are writing systems and metallurgy.
23 Compare p. 272 and p. 516.
24 Compare p. 330 and p. 578.
25 Examples can be found on pp. 394, 462, 599, 632 etc.
26 Majumdar, R.C., The History and Culture of the Indian People, Vol. 1, The Vedic Age (London, 1951), p. 194.Google Scholar
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28 Cf. p. 411, Note 37.