PinkoCommie
05-03-2014, 08:44 PM
Origin of Civilization
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=3130
http://secureimages.teach12.com/tgc/media/courses/3130.jpg (http://theaudiobookbay.com/audio-books/ttc-origin-of-civilization-scott-maceachern/)
Written by Scott MacEachern,
Format: MP3
Every single day of your life is spent within a civilization—an elaborate system composed of governing bodies, detailed laws, dense urban centers, elaborate trade networks, visual and written cultures, class structures, militaries, and more.
And yet the experience of living inside a civilization has become so interwoven with our lives that it's easy to take for granted just how profound and recent the concept is. Consider that human beings have walked the earth for more than 150,000 years, but it was only 10,000 years ago that our distant ancestors began establishing and living within larger and more complex communities.
Our world is forever indebted to a host of early states that paved the way for our current ways of life, including those of the Sumerians, the ancient Egyptians, the Chinese, and the Maya. Without the critical strides they made in areas of government, law, trade, social hierarchies, culture, and more, human civilization as we know it today would not even exist.
How did these first states come into being?
What defines a state? A civilization?
How were the world's ancient states similar to each other? How did they differ?
Answers to these and other dramatic questions form the core of The Origin of Civilization, a grand 48-lecture course that reveals the stories of how human beings around the world transitioned from small farming communities to the impressive cultural and political systems that would forever alter the course of history. Taking a gripping archaeological and historical approach to these formative states and civilizations, archaeologist and Professor Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College completes your understanding of the history of human civilization—by exploring it at its earliest stages.
48 Lectures
I took three particularly interesting chapters from this audiobook and placed them in my dropbox public folder. Although it's of course very unlikely this advanced, ancient civilization was truly classless, the narrative the professor paints is remarkable. No temples found. An apparent 'revolution' of a sort that marked the transition to the civilization's full flower of ~600 years, marked by stunning achievements across the board and more than a little central planning. But no kings just as no temples.
25. First Farmers In The Indus Valley.mp3 17.77 MB (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67981277/25.%20First%20Farmers%20In%20The%20Indus%20Valley.mp3)
26. Cities Along The Indus.mp3 17.47 MB (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67981277/26.%20Cities%20Along%20The%20Indus.mp3)
27. Seeing What We Expect - Power And Display.mp3 16.9 MB (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67981277/27.%20Seeing%20What%20We%20Expect%20-%20Power%20And%20Display.mp3)
Full book available here:
http://theaudiobookbay.com/audio-books/ttc-origin-of-civilization-scott-maceachern/
(*It'll probably be a while before my uploads are complete and ready for you to grab, should you wish.)
Some more recent info on this society since the above book was completed 5 years ago:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0084814
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00350.html
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=3130
http://secureimages.teach12.com/tgc/media/courses/3130.jpg (http://theaudiobookbay.com/audio-books/ttc-origin-of-civilization-scott-maceachern/)
Written by Scott MacEachern,
Format: MP3
Every single day of your life is spent within a civilization—an elaborate system composed of governing bodies, detailed laws, dense urban centers, elaborate trade networks, visual and written cultures, class structures, militaries, and more.
And yet the experience of living inside a civilization has become so interwoven with our lives that it's easy to take for granted just how profound and recent the concept is. Consider that human beings have walked the earth for more than 150,000 years, but it was only 10,000 years ago that our distant ancestors began establishing and living within larger and more complex communities.
Our world is forever indebted to a host of early states that paved the way for our current ways of life, including those of the Sumerians, the ancient Egyptians, the Chinese, and the Maya. Without the critical strides they made in areas of government, law, trade, social hierarchies, culture, and more, human civilization as we know it today would not even exist.
How did these first states come into being?
What defines a state? A civilization?
How were the world's ancient states similar to each other? How did they differ?
Answers to these and other dramatic questions form the core of The Origin of Civilization, a grand 48-lecture course that reveals the stories of how human beings around the world transitioned from small farming communities to the impressive cultural and political systems that would forever alter the course of history. Taking a gripping archaeological and historical approach to these formative states and civilizations, archaeologist and Professor Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College completes your understanding of the history of human civilization—by exploring it at its earliest stages.
48 Lectures
I took three particularly interesting chapters from this audiobook and placed them in my dropbox public folder. Although it's of course very unlikely this advanced, ancient civilization was truly classless, the narrative the professor paints is remarkable. No temples found. An apparent 'revolution' of a sort that marked the transition to the civilization's full flower of ~600 years, marked by stunning achievements across the board and more than a little central planning. But no kings just as no temples.
25. First Farmers In The Indus Valley.mp3 17.77 MB (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67981277/25.%20First%20Farmers%20In%20The%20Indus%20Valley.mp3)
26. Cities Along The Indus.mp3 17.47 MB (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67981277/26.%20Cities%20Along%20The%20Indus.mp3)
27. Seeing What We Expect - Power And Display.mp3 16.9 MB (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67981277/27.%20Seeing%20What%20We%20Expect%20-%20Power%20And%20Display.mp3)
Full book available here:
http://theaudiobookbay.com/audio-books/ttc-origin-of-civilization-scott-maceachern/
(*It'll probably be a while before my uploads are complete and ready for you to grab, should you wish.)
Some more recent info on this society since the above book was completed 5 years ago:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0084814
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00350.html