Index

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A History of Technology (book), 176

A Study of History (book), 48, 71, 93 Abbt, Thomas, 86

Aborigines (Australian), 438-9 Abu-Lughod, Janet, 49 academia

and migration, 309 anthropology and history in, 261-3 Eurocentrism in, 67-9, 395-7 funding for area studies, 76 history of technology in, 177-8 womens movement in, 238-9

Adas, Michael, 50

Adorno, Theodor, 5, 103, 105

Afian culture, 384

Afrasian language family

genetic evidence for, 386-7 origins of, 28, 378-81 spread of, 389-90

Africa

Homo sapiens emergence, 281 human migration, 282-5, 284, 359-60 language in, 117, 118, 348

Last Glacial Maximum, 369-87 marriage in, 210, 229, 249-50 mix of modern and archaic hominid coexistence, 27-9

Paleolithic, 323, 328 preagricultural settlements, 298, 334 similarities to Eurasia, 268-70 slavery in, 224-5, 299-300

Stone Age in, 341-59 timelines in, 110-11

African Political Systems (book), 268 agrarianization

climate change, 288-9

family structures influencing technology in, 14

fire as driving force in, 12, 195-200

grain harvesting, 385, 387

in Africa, 392-3

pastoral migration, 296-8

transition to, 334-6

agriculture.

in Africa, 392-3

intensive, 196-8

language development in, 117-18, 118, 294-6

separate inventions of, 119

Aikin, Lucy, 47

Alexander of Macedon, 43

Allen, Jim, 435

Alonso-Nunez, Jose Miguel, 43

Ambrose, Stanley, 346, 348, 353

American Genesis (book), 179

American Historical Association, 174 Americas

capitalism in, 303, 305

discovery of, 128

language development in, 116 megafauna die-off, 279 migration to, 288, 320-1, 461-75 timelines in, 111

Amin, Samir, 50

An Interpretation of Universal History (book), 48 Anabasis Alexandri (book), 43

Andaya, Barbara, 223

Annales d’histoire economique et sociale (journal), 171

Annaud, Jean-Jacques, 188 anthropology.

and human evolution, 246-8

and technology history, 177

and world history, 261-75

and world-system analysis, 49

as pseudo-history, 274-5

relationship to world history, 18-20 world, 268

apes

domination in, 325-6

tools, 398

warfare in, 323

Apollo cave (archaeology site), 358 Appadurai, Arjun, 51 archaeology. See also anthropology

African Middle and Later Stone Age, 362-9

and Australian migration, 437-8

and fire, 194

and migration, 277, 282-96, 284, 287, 290, 293, 359-6o

and world-system analysis, 49

into Americas, 462-75

Last Glacial Maximum, 369-87 Paleolithic era, 329-32 preagricultural settlements, 333 social, 211-14, 213 time gaps in, 423

Archiv fur die Geschichte der

Naturwissensehaften und der Technik (journal), 172

Armstrong, Karen, 149-50

Arrian (Roman historian), 43

art. See also culture

ice age, 327-9, 409

shamanistic rock art, 358-9, 375, 375 Upper Paleolithic, 411 artifacts. See also tools

Acheulean, 419-20

African microlith, 382

fluted projectile point, 465-7, 474-5 ice age, 329-32

Later Stone Age, 351-2

Lower Paleolithic, 397-400

religious, 214-16, 216 technology history, 176-7

Ashton, T. S., 180

Asia. See also Eurasia

Denisovans in, 342

gender and migration in, 256-7

horse domestication, 291

in Bronze Age, 271-4

maritime migration, 299

marriage in, 224 pastoralists, 298 postcolonial theory, 244 preagricultural settlements, 333-4 science and technology, 180-3 slave economies of, 299-300 wealth of, 125-6

Atapuerca (archaeological site), 397-8,

418

Aubert, Guillame, 248

Australia

Aborigines, 438-9 language development in, 116 maritime migration, 320 megafauna die-off, 279 migration to, 283, 433-56 Paleolithic art, 328

WLH3 (Aboriginal remains), 438-9, 445 australopithecine. See hominin axes (hand)

Acheulean tool assemblages, 419-20 Lower Paleolithic, 397, 399

Axial Age, 148-50, 158 Azurara, Gomes de, 128

Bala, Arun, 147 Balfour, Clara, 47 Ballantyne, Tony, 255 Ban Ban, 44, 59 Bancroft, George, 88-90 Bantu language development, 117, 118 Baran, Paul, 49 Barthes, Roland, 104 Barth, Karl, 149

Batwa culture (Africa), 349, 375, 375-6 Beard, Mary Ritter, 48 Beaujard, Philippe, 125

Being and Time (book), 99 Beitrage zur Geschichte der Technik und

Industrie: Jahrbuch des Vereins deutscher

Ingenieure (journal), 172 beliefs.

as fusion of science and history, 48 web-based project, 53 Bijker, Wiebe E., 183

biopolitics

and family regulation, 15

and the family, 217-31

history of, 209-17 Black Death, 124, 130 Black, Cyril, 49 Bloch, Mark, 171 Blom, Ida, 51 Blumenberg, Hans, 98 Bodin, Jean, 46 Bolger, Diane, 211 Bolling-Allerod Interstatial age, 387-93 Bordes, Franςois, 403-4 Bossuet, Jacques Benigne (Bishop), 45, 62 bow and arrow, 354 Boxgrove (English paleolithic site), 399-400 brain evolution, 428 Braudel, Fernand, 51 Breuil, Abbe Henri, 324 Bronze Age scholarship, 270-4 Brooks, George, 249 Brown, Kathleen, 248 Buddhism, 216-17, 294

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, 85 Bulliet, Richard, 182

Burrows, John, 89

Burton, Antoinette, 101, 255 Burton, Frances, 11, 191 Buttermilk Creek (American Paleoindian site), 473

Buultjens, Ralph, 50

Calvi, Giulia, 256 camel domestication, 291 Canaday, Margot, 18, 251 capitalism. See also Marxism

and migration, 302-7, 305, 308

as a system 267, 269, 271 Capsian culture, 389-90 Castells, Manuel, 51 Qatalhoyuk (archaeology site), 212-15, 213 Catholicism, 126-8, 223, 389-90 Cellarius, Christopher, 46 Chaisson, Eric, 52 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 8, 50, 101-2, 104-6, 140-1

Chase, Kenneth, 184

Chase-Dunn, Christopher, 50 Chaudhuri, K. N., 51

Chemical Embryology (book), 181 Chen Duxui, 226 Chen Shizhang, 181 Chen Shou, 44

Cheng Hao, 59

Chesterton, G. K., 149

Child, Lydia Maria, 47

Childe, V. Gordon, 29, 48, 273, 397 childrearing

cooperative, 247

in ancient households, 212-13, 213

Neolithic, 14

Paleolithic, 326

childscape, 13, 212-13

China

ancient advanced economy, 125-6

and development of science, 146-8, 148 biopolitics in, 226

early domestication in, 214 fire technology in, 324

history writing in, 43-5, 58-9, 161-2 importance of European history in, 68, 70 in Bronze Age, 271-4

kinship in, 219-21

modern scholarship in, 76-7 science and technology, 181-2 seafaring, 124-5

timelines, 62, 110

Chinggis Khan, 298

Christian, David, 53, 95-6, 123-4

Christianity

ancient universal history, 44-5, 60-1 and secularism, 142

Catholicism, 223, 389-90

Crusades, 126-8

tension with domestic life, 216

timelines, 110 universalism in, 122-3

chronology.

Cipolla, Carlo, 182

Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie at La

Villette (France), 167 civilization

and migration, 300

as descriptor for world history, 92 universal, 120

Civilization and its Discontents (book), 48 Clarke, Mary Cowden, 47

climate change

and agriculture, 288-9, 336

and animal range reduction, 442-4

and dispersals, 423-8, 424, 426, 427

and hominin extinction, 343-4

and hunter-gatherers, 314-15, 332, 353

and language, 370, 391

and Paleolithic migrations, 31-3, 322

Australian, 35, 445-7

in post-glacial Australia, 454-5

Late Glacial Maximum, 449-50

Neanderthal adaptation to, 400-2

Clocks and Culture (book), 182

Clovis culture (Paleoindian), 36-7, 320, 465-72, 466

coal production, 202

Code of Hammurabi (law), 219

Cold War era

and end to Eurocentrism, 73 biopolitics, 229-30, 230 funding for area studies, 76 technologies, 173 war threat continuing, 306 collective learning, 186-7, 191 Collingwood, R. G., 397 Colonial Williamsburg (museum), 168 colonialism. See also imperialism

and family, 15, 17, 222-4, 227

and gender, 256-7

and intermarriage, 248-9

and world history, 65, 69, 267-8

Columbus, Christopher, 128, 296 commerce. See trade communities. See population comparative history and globalization, 51 anthropology, 268-70 in Bronze Age, 270-4 sociology of, 263

Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government (book), 44

Comte, Auguste, 66

Condit, Carl, 174

conjectural historians (Scotland), 46 Connell, R. W., 244

Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers

(France), 166 consonants (in language), 347 container revolution, 324 convergence (great), 120-4 cooking

and fire, 193

fire management, 12-13 with pots, 391-2

Copernicus, Nicholas, 144-5 cosmology, 214-17

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, 180 cranial deformation, 453 Crest of the Peacock (book), 147 Cro-Magnon (Homo sapiens), 283

Crusades, 126-8

Crystal Palace Exhibition, 167

Cuddie Springs (Australian site), 442 “cultural turn”, 240-59 culture.

and domestication, 209-17

and gender, 234-6, 237

Australian hunter gatherer, 444-8, 454 based on differences from others, 119-20 Clovis, 288, 461

early Homo sapiens, 115, 314-15, 317-21 historiography, 63, 159-62 ice age, 327-9

myth in, 98, 186

oral traditions, 263-7, 272-3 preagricultural settlements, 332-4 primitive, 261-5

shock, 221-2

technology in, 167, 167, 170, 174-5

Curtin, Philip, 51

da Gama, Vasco, 296

Dabban culture (Later Stone Age), 367 d'Alembert, Jean, 165

Darmstaedter, Ludwig, 172

Darwin, Charles, 90-1, iii

dating methods

ambiguous in Americas, 463, 471, 474

Australia, 437-8, 448

in Africa, 351, 353

inaccuracy of, 418-19

Daumas, Maurice, 175-6

Davis, Mike, 52

Dawson, Christopher, 48

de Chardin, Pierre Teilhard, 324

de Condillac, Etienne Bonnot, 46

de Mendoza, Juan Gonzales, 62

de Montesquieu, Charles, 63

de Pizan, Christine, 3, 45

De Revolutionibus (book), 144-5

Deacon, Hillary, 352

Decline of the West (book), 71 demography. See also population and dating methods, 448 and migration, 278 and syntactic language, 346-7 demonstratives (language), 348 Denisovans (hominin), 34, 339-40, 342, 400, 436-7

dependency theory, 49-50

Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment (book), 49

Derrida, Jacques, 6, 99-101

descent systems

matrilineal, 377-8

Deutsches Museum (Munich), 167, 169

Diamond, Jared, 52 diasporas. See also culture and capitalism, 304-6 and migration, 300-2 and slavery, 294 post WWII, 306

Dickinson, Edward, 230

Diderot, Denis, 165

Dilthey, Wilhelm, 98

Din, Rashid al-, 269

Diodorus of Sicily, 44, 59 discourse (in history), 240-59

Discourse of Universal History (book), 62

Discovering God (book), 150

dispersal. See also migration

Australian, 434-8

into Eurasia, 414-29

divergence

Age of, 113-20, 114, 118, 394

Australian hunter gatherer, 444-5 into Americas, 461, 470-1 linguistic, 7

Dmanisi (Eurasian archaeology site), 416-19 DNA.

domestication. See also biopolitics

and child nurturance, 212-14, 213

and religion, 214-17

family history, 13, 210-17 horse, 291

of fire, 187-203

Draft History of the Qing Dynasty (book), 45

Droysen, Johann, 88-90

Duara, Prasenjit, 101-2

Durkheim, Emile, 19, 261-5

early dispersal (Australian), 436-8

Eastern African Microlithic culture, 372-4,

374

Eburran culture, 388 economics. See also trade

and Industrial Revolution, 120

and secularism, 143, 144

and slavery, 224-5, 292-4, 295, 299-300,301

Australian hunter gatherer, 444 based on local environments, 447-8 family domestication, 209-17 historians, 180

in United States, 72, 224

of marriage, 249-50

post WWII, 306

Edgerton, David, 183

education. See also academia and training Egypt

gender roles in, 221

in Last Glacial Maximum, 381-7

Paleolithic era, 367-8

Ehret, Christopher, 282 electricity, 204-6

Eliade, Mircea, 41

Elias, Norbert, 12, 48, 192

Elkabian culture, 389

Ellis, Sarah Strickley, 47 empires. See also imperialism

and intercontinental migration, 304-6 rise of world, 291-6

Encyclopedie (1751-1772), 9, 165

Encyclopedie methodique, ou par ordre de matieres (book), 165

energy

definition of, 190

types of, 204-6

Energy in World History (book), 181

Enlightenment period

and periodization, 85

core values, 141

world history writing in, 3-4, 65 environment

air pollution from fires, 198-200 and human migration patterns, 278-81,

281

and syntactic language, 346-7 dispersals in, 414-15 in Paleolithic era, 22

influence on human culture, 52, 314-16, 318-21

Ephorus, 43, 59

Epistles on Women, Exemplifying their

Character and Condition in Various Ages and Nations with Miscellaneous Poems (book), 47

Erdos, Richard, 42

Essai sur les moeurs et Vespirit des nations (book), 45

Eurasia. See also Europe, Asia early human migration to, 342-3, 426 megafauna die-off, 279 migration patterns, 289-96, 293 Paleolithic migration to, 414-29 similarities to Africa, 268-70

Eurocentrism

and anthropology, 19, 265-6

and China, 19, 271-2

and religion, 150

and science, 133, 148, 395-7

in modern academia, 153-62, 155, 156, 158 in Paleolithic era scholarship, 29 influencing world history, 3, 5, 8-9, 61-3, 140-1, 267-8

taking hold outside of Europe, 64-9 Europe. See also Eurasia

capitalism in, 302-4, 305

cave art, 327-9

early migration to, 283, 320, 331-2 modern biopolitics in, 227-9, 228 Neanderthal origin in, 400-1 periodization in, 110 role in evolutionary theory, 394-7 seafaring, 127-8, 299

Europe and the People without History (book), 8, 20, 140, 272

Eusebius of Caesarea, 44, 60 Evans-Pritchard, E. E., 263-4, 268 evolution. See also periodization

and climate change, 315-16, 428, 453-4

and globalization, 95-6 and natural selection, 114 and periodization, 90-1 cognitive abilities, 211 Europe's role in, 394-7 human, 246-8, 313-14 language, 115-19, 118, 280 technology, 170-4 universality of, 94-5 exhibitions (technology), 10, 167

factories. See Industrial Revolution Fagan, Brian, 52 family

and colonization, 220-5, 227 laws regarding, 14-15, 208-9 in modernizing revolutions, 225-31, 228 in the Neolithic, 13-14, 208, 210-14 in the Paleolithic, 13, 210, 328 and religion, 14, 214-17, 222 and the state 217-20, 225, 229

Fan Ye, 44

Fascism, 227-9, 228 Febvre, Lucien, 171 Female Biography (book), 47 Ferguson, Adam, 46, 63 Ferguson, Niall, 48 Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, 123 fire

and population growth, 323-4

human relationship to, 11, 30, 185-206, 317 Neanderthal, 403

Firearms: A Global History to 1700 (book), 182 Flannery, Tim, 443

Flores, Dan, 95 Folsom site (Paleoindian), 36, 463-4, 464,

466, 474-5

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de, 46, 85 food. See also agriculture

and energy usage, 195-200, 206, 447

and land abandonment, 452

and migration, 279, 289

hunter-gatherer, 247, 331, 380, 470

ice age strategies, 326-7, 410

meat and migration, 33 forager. See hunter-gatherers “force field” periodization, 5, 104-6 forced migration, 292-4, 295 Forde, C. D., 268

Fortes, M., 268

Foucault, Michel, 6,17, 51, 99-101, 209-10, 241 France

postmodern thought in, 100-1 revolution, 226

Frank, Andre Gunder, 49-50, 129

Fraser, James George, 186, 261, 268 Frazer, James, 19

French Revolution, 226

Freud, Sigmund, 48 Friedman, Tom, 131

Frost, Lionel, 51

Fukuzawa Yukichi, 70 future

and World Wide Web of Energy, 206 of history of technology scholarship, 183-4 of migration, 307-9

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 87 Gamble, Clive, 13, 208

Game Pass (archaeology site), 374

Gasset, Ortega y, 48

gay rights movement, 239-40, 242 gender. See also women, homosexuality

and Cold War, 229-30, 230

and hegemony, 244

and human evolution, 246-8

and social hierarchies, 15-20, 241, 324-6

and state rule, 217-20, 218

and world history, 17-18, 52, 234-57 domestication and human origins, 210-14 in preagricultural settlements, 334

and universal history, 45-6 genetics

and Afrasian language, 386-7

and human origins, 349

genetics (cont.)

and migration, 113-15, 114, 278, 280, 407, 420, 434-9

and Neanderthals, 395, 406 g^eog^rap^hy

abandonment of, 448-9, 451-3 as organizing principle, 42, 49 of Europe for migration, 395 of knowledge at Cambridge, 153-62, 155, 156, 158

Germany, 66, 172

Geschichte alter Erfindungen und Entdeckungen im Bereiche der Gewerbe, Kunste und WissenschaJten von derfruhesten Zeit bis auf unsere Tage (book), 165

Geschichte der Technik (book), 176

Geyl, Pieter, 87

Ghosh, Durba, 256

Gills, Barry, 50

Gills, Frank, 50

Glacial Maximum

last, 369-87, 410, 449-54, 465

late, 285-9, 290

Glennie, Paul, 103

Glimpses of World History (book), 5, 48, 70 globalization

and evolution, 95-6

and hunter-gatherers, 327-9

and popular culture, 307 gender and sexuality, 255-6 importance of, 112, 130-1 shaping world history scholarship, 5, 50, 74-5, 95, 112-13, 120-2, 251

Goodall, Jane, 25, 323

Gordon, Stewart, 125

Gould, Stephen J., 52

Gramsci, Antonio, 17, 244 grandmother hypothesis, 247

Great Convergence, 7-8, 120-4

See also globalization

Great Drying (Sahul), 35

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations (1851), 167

Greece, 58-9, 151

Guha, Ranajit, 50, 101-3

Guignes, Joseph de, 63

Guns, Sails and Empires (book), 182

Guo Songao, 47

habitat (and migration), 279, 318-21

Hadza culture (Africa), 356-7

Haiguo Tuzhi (book), 45

Hakluyt, Richard, 62

Hale, Sarah Josepha, 47

Hall, A. R., 176

Hall, Thomas, 50

Hanshu (book), 44

Harper's ferry Armory and the New Technology:

the Challenge of Change (book), 179 Hawkes, Kristen, 247, 356

Hay, Mary, 47

Headrick, Daniel, 181, 183

Hegel, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm, 4, 46, 66,

89, 91, 104 hegemony, 17, 244 Heidegger, Martin, 6, 85, 98-100, 103 Heinrich events, 32, 425 Hempel, Carl, 96 henotheism, 381, 387 Henry the Navigator, 125, 127 Heraclitus, 205

Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 46, 64, 86, 97 Herodotus, 3-4, 42, 221

Herodotus of Halicarnassus, 58

Heroines of History (book), 47

Herzog, Dagmar, 250

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth, 47

Histoire generate des techniques (book), 176

Historia general y natural de las Indias

(book), 62

Historical Capitalism (book), 49 Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society,

and Culture (booklets), 174

Historical Records (book), 59

Histories (book), 42, 58-9 historiography

and economics, 72

and periodization, 7 anthropology contributions to, 274-5 beginning dates of, 111-12

Eurocentrism in, 9, 64-9, 132-6, 137 in modern academia, 153-62, 155, 156, 158 modern transnational, 73-9 nationalist, 85-91 of technology, 165-84 oral traditions, 263-7 popular, 56-8 postcolonial, 101-4

History of all the Inventions and Discoveries in the Trades, Arts, and Sciences from Earliest Times to Our Day (1837), 9, 165

History of Mechanical Inventions (book), 172 History of Science Society, 138, 171, 174 History of Technology (journal), 176

History of Technology and Invention: Progress

Through the Ages (book), 176

History of the Former Han Dynasty (book), 44

History of the Human Race (book), 86

History of the Later Han (book), 44

History of the Three Kingdoms (book), 44

History: The Last Things Before the Last (book), 105

Hodder, Ian, 208-9

Hodgson, Marshall, 50, 95

Holmyard, E.J., 176

Holocene Epoch, 288-9, 290 hominins. See also apes and language, 344 Asian migration, 31-2 coexistence of various types, 339-40 European migration, 397-8 exclusion by historians, 111 extinction of archaic, 370-2 meta-history of, 150-3, 341-2 technologies, 33, 191-2, 323, 354

Homo antecessor, 398

Homo erectus

in Eurasia, 31-2, 279, 318, 416-19, 424 maritime migration, 320

Homo habilis, 21

Homo heidelbergensis, 30, 399-400, 420

Homo neanderthalensis. See Neanderthals

Homo sapiens. See also modern humans

African origins, 25-9, 339-41, 349, 382-3 Asian migration, 32-3, 420-3, 426 Australian migration, 33-5, 433-56 coexistence with hominins, 31, 339-40 in cooler climate, 315-16 in Europe, 31, 406

Later Stone Age and Late Paleolithic, 342 migration from Africa, 279, 316-18, 406 migration to Americas, 288 migration to Europe, 406-10, 411 homosexuality. See also gay rights movement, queer theory

and citizenship, 251

and cultural turn, 241-4, 243

and migration, 255

and world history, 17

Hopkins, Anthony, 51, 95, 112, 121

Horn of Africa, 378-81

horse domestication, 291

Hou Hanshu (book), 44

household. See family, kinship

How it all Began: Origins of the Modern

Economy (book), 49

Howiesons Poort culture

Later and Middle Stone Age mix, 352-4 mix of modern and archaic, 27

Hughes, Thomas, 174, 179, 183

human beings. See modern humans human progress

and fire, 185-206

biological diversity, 115 family history, 210-17 history as, 66

Hume, David, 46

Hunt, Lynn, 15, 226

Hunter, Louis C., 178

hunter-gatherers. See also pastoral migration

Acheulean tool assemblages, 419-20 Australian, 444

culture, 325-9

during ice ages, 400-2 evolution of, 246-7

female kinship groups in, 356-7 forming settlements, 332-4 in Africa, 316-18, 376-7, 381-4 in Americas, 461-75, 464 language, 372-4 warfare in, 323

Husserl, Edmund, 100

Hutcheson, Francis, 46

Iberomaurusian culture. See Oranian culture

Ibn Khaldum, 60

Ibn Majid, 221

ice age. See also Pleistocene era

and Asian migration, 32-3

and Australian migration, 433-4, 434

and early migration, 283, 313-14 Bolling-Allerod Interstatial, 387-93 climate change, 315-16 food strategies, 326-7

Glacial Maximum, 28, 31, 285-8, 369-87

Homo emergence, 23-4

ICON (journal), 175

idealism

and world history, 99-104

progress, 168-9, 171

Illustrated Treatise on the Sea Kingdom (book), 45

imagination, 314-15, 319, 329

imperialism. See also colonialism

and gender, 256-7

and migration, 291-2 criticism of, 69 technology and, 182

India

and nation building, 101-2

and periodization, 110 migration to, 256-7, 422

Indica (book), 43

indigenous history, 41-2

Indo-European language development, 118 Indo-European religious traditions, 119 Industrial Revolution

and globalization, 120 comparative history and, 273-4 fire as driving force in, 13, 200-3 technology in, 180

Inglehart, Ronald, 143 innovation

during ice ages, 286

Neanderthals devoid of, 406

separating modern humans, 407

International Committee for the History of Technology, 10, 175

Introduction a I’Histoire Universelle (book), 88

Introduction to the History of Science (book), 138 inventions. See technology

Iroquois kinship system, 356

Isaac, Glynn, 151

Isis (journal), 8, 138, 171

Islam

and conflict with Christianity, 126-8 and modernization, 143 culture shock in, 221-2 pastoralists, 296

timelines, 110 universal history, 43-4, 59-60, 122-3 isnads, 43-4 Israel, 194, 420

Iwo Eleru (archaeology site), 371-2, 390

Jameson, Anna, 47

Japan

chronology in, 102

importance of European history in, 68 preagricultural settlements, 333-4 Jaspers, Karl, 48, 148

Jewish Antiquities (book), 44

Jews

as traders, 122, 300

marriage, religious ideas of, 43, 110-11 sterilization of, 227-9

timelines, ιιι

Jomon (Japan archaeological site), 333-4 Jones, Eric, 49, 51

Jones, Nicholas Blurton, 356

Jones, William, 8, 136-9

Joseph, George, 147-8, 148 juan (Chinese biographies), 44

Jubayar, Ibn, 60

Junot, Laure, 47

Kant, Immanuel, 46

Keeping Together in Time (book), 50 Khoesan language, 28, 372-4

Khor Musa (archaeology site), 368 kinship. See also family

and marriage, 220-5

and syntactic language, 346 as form of state rule, 217-20, 218 early human, 356-7, 428 matrilineal, 356, 376-8, 380 Niger-Kordofanian, 377 patrilineal, 217, 225, 249

Klein, Richard, 353 knowledge

achieved by comparison, 138

as Eurocentric, 8, 134-5

in modern academia, 153-62, 155, 156 Koyre, Alexandre, 144

Kracauer, Siegfried, 5, 104 Kramer, Samuel Noah, ιιι

Kransberg, Melvin, 174-6

Krieger, Leonard, 88

Kurlansky, Mark, 52

labor. See work

Lake Mungo (Australian site), 438-9, 444 Lake, Marilyn, 250

Lamprecht, Karl, 90-1

Landau, Misia, 151

Landes, David, 180 language. See also syntactic language

and academia, 160-1

and migration, 289, 289-91

and modern humans, 347, 407

and power of convergence, 130, 240-1 divergence, 7, 347

future of, 309 historiography of, 8, 153 in Africa, 26-7, 115-19, 118, 372-4,

376-81

in modern times, 306

Neanderthal, 30, 404-6 trading, 122

language families

Afrasian, 28, 378-81, 386-7, 389-90 Niger-Kordofanian, 28, 377-8, 390-2 Nilo-Saharan, 28, 377-8, 389

language types

Afrasian, 378-81

Bantu, 117, 118

English as primary modern, 120

Latin language and history, 46-7 rise of syntactic, 280-2, 344-8

Last Glacial Maximum

and migration to Americas, 465 Australia, 449-54 in Africa, 369-87

onset, 410

late dispersal (Australian), 433-6, 434 Late Glacial Maximum

climate change, 449-50 population during, 285-9, 290

Later Stone Age

in Africa, 27-8, 349-55, 355, 376 religion, 357-9 technology, 362-9 warfare, 354-60

Latin (language), 46-7, 294 law

Code of Hammurabi, 219

colonial, 227

marriage, 219-20

racial hygiene, 227

Lawn Hill River (Australian site), 452

Lazier, Benjamin, 105

Leakey, Louis, 21

Lee, James, 269

Lee, Yun Kuen, 215

Lehmann, Hartmut, 143

Lemuta culture (Africa), 354

Lerner, Gerder, 219

Levant

first Homo sapiens outside Africa, 420

Later Stone Age technology, 367

Levi-Strauss, Claude, 247, 264

Liang Qichao, 47, 70-1

Iiezhaun (Chinese biographies), 44 linguistics scholarship, 136-8 literacy (rise of), 47 local temporality, 99-100

Lord Kames, 63

Lorenz, Karl, 348

Lowenmensch ivory figurine, 409

Lower Paleolithic

in Europe, 397-400, 398

spread into Europe, 29-30

Lu Guizhen, 181

Lucretius, 186

Luibheid, Eithne, 255

Lyotard, Jean-Franςois, 100

Macaulay, David, 161

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 322

Magellan, Ferdinand, 296

Magubane, Zine, 256

Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 176

Malakunanja II site (Australian), 437-8

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 18, 261-2, 268, 274

Malthus, Thomas Robert, 269, 273 mammoth. See megafauna die-off

Man Makes Himself (book), 48

Man, John, 8, 130

“Man the Hunter” (concept), 13

Mann, Charles C., 53

Mann, Murray Gell, 52

Manning, Patrick, 96

mapping

genome, 113-15, 114

technology, 299

Maps of Time (book), 96, 123-4

Margulis, Lynn, 52

maritime migration

and slavery, 299-300, 301

Asian, 429

Australia, 455

early, 282-3, 284, 288, 297, 299, 320

Marquis de Condorcet, 46 marriage. See also family, kinship

and sterilization, 227-9

in preagricultural settlements, 13, 210, 333 intermarriage, 220-5, 248-50

law involving, 219-20

Martin, Steve, 133

Marx, Karl, 4, 10, 46, 166, 268, 272, 302 Marxism

and dependency theory, 49

and Eurocentrism, 67, 70

technology history, 176

Masuda, Matt, 51

Ma'sudi, Abu Al-husayn 'ali ibn al-, 43-4, 60 mathematics

in Bronze Age, 273

world history of, 147-8, 148

matter (definition), 189

Matthias, Josephus ben, 44

Matupi Cave (archaeology site), 365, 376

May Fourth Movement (China), 226

Mazlish, Bruce, 50

McKeown, Adam, 51

McNeill, John R., 52

McNeill, William H., 5-6, 50, 72, 85, 93-6,121

Mead, Margaret, 322

Meadowcroft (American Paleoindian site),

473

Medieval Technology and Social Change (book),

178

megafauna die-off

and Neanderthals, 402

and Paleoindian culture, 463, 467-8

megafauna die-off (cont.)

in Americas, 37, 321, 332

in Australia, 440-4

Meinecke, Friedrich, 87

Melancthon, Philip, 45

Mellars, Paul, 404, 406

Melmessous, Saliha, 248

Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns (book), 47

Memoirs of Celebrated Women (book), 47

Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries (book), 47

Method for the Easy Comprehension of History (book), 46

Methodical Encyclopedia in Thematic Order (book), 165 methodology

migration studies, 277-8

technology history scholarship, 176-7

Michelet, Jules, 88

microburin technique, 382-4 microlith

geometric, 384-6, 389

West African, 390

Middle Paleolithic, 30, 341-2, 400-6

Middle Stone Age

coexisting with Later Stone Age, 364-9 extinction of, 370-2, 390 in Africa, 341-2, 349, 359

modern human emergence in, 26 migration

agricultural, 294-6

as world history theme, 20-1, 278-307 causes of, 321-4 during ice ages, 24-5, 315-21 forced, 227, 292, 299-304 gender in, 251-6

genetic evidence for, 113, 114 into Americas, 35-7, 461-5 into Europe, 406-10, 411 land, 282-3, 284, 288 maritime, 298-300, 301

Paleolithic era, 27-9, 31-3, 321-4, 359-60 Milankovic cycles, 24, 32, 423 military history. See also warfare agrarianization, 196-8 arms race, 304-6 horses and camels, 291 pastoralists, 298 technology, 182

Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West (book), 182

Millar, John, 46

mixed-race marriage, 248-9

modern humans. See also Homo sapiens and syntactic language, 345-8 capacity for cultural change, 115 kinship, 356-7 mind development in, 29, 31 physical differences in, 113 shamanism, 357-9

modernization

analysis of, 52-3, 152 processes of, 68, 77, 226

Mongol pastoral expansion, 299 Montaigne, Michel de, 129

Monte Verde (South America Paleoindian site), 473-4

Montesquieu, Charles de, 85, 225 Montgomery, Bernard, 322

Montucla, Jean Etienne, 46

Moon, Suzanne, 174

moral sense

and human community, 46

and need for history, 93-4 of world history, 97-8

More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (book), 180

Mortley, Raoul, 43

Motel of the Mysteries (book), 161 Muller, Max, 8, 136, 138

Mumba culture (Africa), 351-2

Mumford, Lewis, 10, 48, 172-3

Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawahir (book), 43-4

Museum of American History (Washington D.C.), 167, 169

Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago), 167, 169

museums

and artifacts, 176-7

science and technology, 166-8, 170 Mushabian culture, 385-6

Muslim. See Islam

myth

and historical meaning, 98

and multiplicity, 102

fire, 186

Myths of the Origin of Fire (book), 186

Nagarjuna, 159

Naipaul, V. S., 7, 120

Natchikufan (archaeology site), 376 nation state

and gender, 52, 250-1, 252

and periodization, 7, 88-91

as highest form of political order, 67

Nation-Building and Citizenship (book), 49

Natufian preagricultural settlements, 333 natural selection. See evolution navigators. See maritime migration Nazi. See Fascism

Nazlet Khater (archaeology site), 368

Nazlet Tahta (archaeology site), 368 Neanderthals

adaptation to cold, 344, 400-3, 401 and genetics of African population, 395 culture, 404-6

extinction of, 409

Homo heidelbergensis, 30 mating with Homo sapiens, 115, 339-40 origins of, 30, 400-1 technology, 402-4

Needham, Joseph, 10, 19, 146, 181-2, 264, 271-2

Negritude Movement, 71

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 5, 48, 70

Nenana culture (Northeastern Eurasia), 471-2

Neolithic era

domestication in, 210-17 self-domestication during, 13

Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society (book), 179

Neudeck, G., 172

New Guinea

early migration to, 283

language development in, 116 maritime migration, 320

New Spain, 223, 389-90

Newcomen Society for the Study of the

History of Engineering and Technology, 172

Niele, Frank, 190

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 97

Niger-Congo culture, 392-3

Niger-Kordofanian language family, 28, 377-8, 390-2

Nilo-Saharan language family, 28, 377-8, 389

Niyogi, Esha, 255

Nonzero (book), 52

Norris, Pippa, 143

Oakhurst culture, 388

O'Brien, Patrick, 95, 103 ochre (red), 330, 445

O'Connell, James, 356, 435 official histories (China), 44 oil technology, 204-6

Old Stone Age. See Paleolithic era

Olszewski, Eugeniusz, 175

On Deep History and the Brain (book), 96 oral traditions

and cultural ignorance, 264 evidence of climate change, 370 not precursor to historical scholarship, 57

Oranian culture, 382-3

Orientalism (book), 50, 159

Orosius, Paulus, 44, 60

Osiris (journal), 171

Otto, Bishop of Freysing, 44, 60

Ottoman Empire, 127

Ouchta retouch technology, 382

Out of Africa dispersal (Paleolithic), 416, 416,

420

outre passe flaking (stone), 466

Pacey, Arnold, 181

Paine, Lincoln, 53

Paisley Cave (American Paleoindian site),

473

Paleoindian culture

Clovis, 36-7, 465-72, 466

Folsom, 36, 463-4, 464, 466, 474-5 pre-Clovis, 473-4

Paleolithic era

and beginnings of human history, 21-3 cave art, 327-9, 359

climate change in, 23-5 culture, 31, 45-7 in Australia, 33-5 in Eurasia, 29-33, 414-29

Lower, 397-400, 398

Middle, 400-6

migration to Americas, 35-7

Upper, 406-10, 411

Pargas, Damian, 224

Parker, Geoffrey, 182

Parsons, Talcott, 143

Past and Future (book), 94

pastoral migration, 296-8

See also preagricultural settlements, hunter-gatherers

patriarchy, 14, 215, 226, 236, 246 patriotism (in technology history), 169-70,

171

Pedra Furada (South America Paleoindian site), 474

periodization. See also chronology

and childrearing, 211-14, 213

and Great Convergence, 7-8

and nationalist historiography, 85-91

periodization. (cont.) as force field, 5, 104-6 definition of, 84 globalization, 121 in world history, 5-7, 110-12 of fire, 187-203

Persian Letters (book), 225 philosophy

Aristotelian, 43 fire, 204-6 foundation for history, 46-7 idealism in, 99-104 moral sense, 46, 93-4, 97-8 positivism, 66 sequential causality, 85 technics, 172-3 Whiggism, 168-70

Philips, Emo, 134

Piccolomini, Aeneas Sylvius, 127 Pinch, Trevor, 183

Piozzi, Hester, 47 Plagues and Peoples (book), 50, 94 Pleistocene era. See also ice age and migration to Americas, 461-75 Australian, 433-56 climate change in, 423

Polanyi, Jose Karl, 48 politics

and gender, 235-7, 250 centralization of in ancient times, 121 Eurocentrism in, 70

ice age, 330-1 postwar global, 93-4 pollution (fire), 198-200 Polo, Marco, 122 Polybius, 43, 59 Polynesian maritime navigation, 298 Pope Pius II, 127

Popular Mechanics (journal), 168 Popular Science Monthly (journal), 168-9 popular technology, 167, 167, 170 population. See also demography and language evolution, 115-17 and migration studies, 277-8 bottleneck, 346-7 during Holocene and Late Glacial Maximum, 285-9, 290 growth of, 130 in Paleolithic era, 22-3, 321 slavery economics and, 224-5

Portugal (trading voyages from), 124-9 positivism (philosophy), 66, 241 Post, Robert, 174 postcolonial world history

theory, 244-5

writing, 50, 98-103

Postmodern era (world history writing in),

99-104

Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present (book), 183

Prakash, Gyan, 101

preagricultural settlements. See also pastoral migration

culture, 332-4

Europe, 409-10

Niger-Congo culture, 392-3

presentist norms. See also modernization analysis

gay rights movement, 239-40, 242

in world historiography, 61-4, 69-73, ∏2, 161

popular technology, 167, 167, 170

Postmodern era, 99-104

rise of literacy, 47

secularization, 141-4, 144

womens movement, 238-40

Prester John (legend of), 125

printing technology

causing lines drawn in world history, 3-4

universal history proliferation, 45 professionalization (of scholarship), 47-9, 64-9

Prometheus, 186

Proto-Aurignacian technology, 408-9 Provincializing Europe (book), 8, 140 Puar, Jasbir, 18, 251

Pursell, Carroll, 176

Pygmy culture. See Batwa culture

Qadan culture, 384

Qingshi gao (book), 45

queer theory, 16, 242-4

Questfor Fire (film), 188

Qurunian culture, 389

race

and biopolitics, 224, 227

and migration, 285

and skin color, 114

hierarchies in, 242, 304

mixed marriage, 248-9

Racial Hygiene Laws, 227

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., 263, 268, 274

Rae, John B., 174

Ramanujan, 135

Ranke, Leopold von, 5-6, 17, 46, 84-8, 91, 97,

104

Records of the Grand Historian (book), 44 religion. See also rituals, secularization, shamanism

and uncertainty, 93-4

as cultural convergence, 122-3

Eurocentrism in, 133-6

family and, 14, 214-17, 391 henotheism, 381, 387 historiography of, 8 ice age, 357-9, 404

in academia, 138, 153-62, 155, 156

modern traditions, 57-8

sacred history, 41, 97

universal history, 43-4

Renfrew, Colin, 117

reproduction. See family, marriage Retrospection (book), 47

Revolution

in anthropology, 261

political, 224-7

Reynolds, Henry, 250

Richards, John, 52

rituals, 7, 102, 214, 219, 235, 327, 329, 409, 467

Robberg culture, 376

Robertson, Roland, 51

Robertson, William, 46, 63

Rose Cottage Cave (archaeology site), 364-5 Rose, Deborah Bird, 42

Rostow, W. W., 49

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 225

Ruse, Michael, 97

Sagan, Dorion, 52

Sahul (paleo-continent), 33-5, 434, 437-8, 450 Said, Edward, 50, 159

Saidi, Christine, 356-7

Sanguozhi (book), 44

Sarkar, Tanika, 256

Sarker, Sonita, 255

Sarton, George, 8, 10-11, 136, 138-9, 147, 171 scholarship. See also world history writing, academia

and social revolutions, 76

being Eurocentric, 64-9

gender history, 236-40

history of technology, 170-3, 183-4 linguistics, 136-8

methodology in, 176-7, 277-8 modern world historical, 75-6 postcolonial world history writing, 99-100 scientific, 138-9

Schoningen (German paleolithic site), 30, 400 Schuchardine, S. J., 175

Schwartz, Ruth, 11

Science and Civilisation in China (book), 181 Science and Technology in World History (book), 145

Science Museum (Boston), 167 Science Museum (London), 167, 172 Scientific American (journal), 10, 168-9 scientific revolution

as moment in history, 144-8, 148, 158

in world history, 271 scholarship in, 138-9 scientism (philosophy), 66, 133, 157-9, 158 Scott, Joan, 16, 236 Second World War (WWII)

and biopolitics, 229-30, 230

effects of, 202 secularization, 141-4, 144 Sedgwick, Eve, 240 Sellars, Wilfrid, 96 Semitic language origins, 386-7 sequential causality, 85, 96 sexuality

and intermarriage, 248-50 and nation building, 251 and orientation, 241-4, 243 scholarship in, 239-40 shamanism

African hunter gatherer, 374, 374-5, 375,

377

as first religion, 357-9 Shamarkian culture, 389 Shapin, Steven, 145 Shea, John, 354 Shiji (book), 44, 59 shu (Chinese treatises), 44 Siberia

Beringia land bridge, 461, 464-5

migration to, 429

Sibudu Cave (archaeology site), 364-5 Sieferle, Rolf Peter, 201-2 Silenpeace movement, 161

Silsilian culture, 382-4

Sima Guang, 44 Sima Qian, 3-4, 43-4, 59 Sima Tan, 44 Singer, Charles, 176 Sinha, Mrinalini, 256 Sisk, Matthew, 354 slash and burn economy, 195-6 slavery, 224, 236-8, 292-4, 295, 299-300, 301 Smail, Daniel Lord, 96-7, 211

Smil, V., io, 181

Smith, Adam, 46

Smith, Merritt Roe, 179

Social and Cultural Dynamics (book), 48 social construction, 241-4

Societyfor the History of Technology (SHOT), 174-6, 179

sociology. See also anthropology

and secularism, 143

comparative, 19, 263

of technology, 178-8o

Sodmain Cave (archaeology site), 368 Sorokin, Pitirim A., 48

Spengler, Oswald, 5, 48, 71-2

Spirit of the Laws (book), 63

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 103

St. Augustine of Hippo, 44

Stark, Rodney, 150

state. See nation state

Staudenmaier, John, 174

Stavrianos, Leften, 49

Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History (book), 178

Steensgard, Niels, 51

Stewart, Dugald, 46

Stewart, J. R., 436

Stoczkowski, Wiktor, 151

Stone Age

culture, 349-55, 355

extinction of, 370-2, 390

mixing of Middle and Later populations, 364-9

religion, 357-9

Stringer, C. B., 436

Strobel, Margaret, 50

Stubbs, William, 6, 88

Sturbridge Village (museum), 170 subaltern groups, 244

Subaltern Studies 1 (book), 101

Suicide (book), 262

Sunda migration, 283

Sunderland, Heather, 98

Swetnam, Joseph, 3, 45-6 symbolic thought, 12, 208, 211, 214 syntactic language, 280-2, 344-8

Tabari, Abu Ja'far al-, 43-4

Taima-Taima (South America Paleoindian site), 474

Tanaka, Stefan, 102

Taylor, Charles, 142

technics (philosophy), 172-3

Technics and Civilization (book), 48, 172-3 Technikgeschichte (journal), 172, 176 Techniques et Cultures (journal), 176 technology

Acheulean tool assemblages, 419-20

African ceramic, 391-2

and patriotism, 47, 169-70, 171

fire management, 11-13, 323-4 historiography of, 9-11, 165-84 in ancient Eurasia, 289-96, 293 journals, 172

Later Stone Age, 362-9 microburin technique, 382-4 migration of, 277-8, 302-4 modern warfare, 354-5

Neanderthal, 402-4

Proto-Aurignacian, 408-9 seafaring, 299

Upper Paleolithic, 31, 368 Technology and Culture (journal), 174-6 Technology in Western Civilization (book), 176 Technology in World Civilization (book), 181 Technology: A World History (book), 181 The Archeology of Knowledge (book), 100 The Arraignment of lewd, idle and forward women (1615), 3, 45

The Book of the City of Ladies (1405), 3, 45 The Camel and the Wheel (book), 182 The Case for Sterilization (book), 229 The Civilizing Process (book), 48 The Decline of the West (book), 48 The Division of Labour (book), 262 The Dynamics of Modernization: A Study in

Comparative History (book), 49

The Dynamics of World History (book), 48

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (book), 262

The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia (book), 49

The Evolution of Culture (book), 178 The Great Degeneration: How Institutions

Decay and Economies Die (book), 48

The Great Transformation (book), 48

The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis (article), 178

The History of the Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations (book), 47

The Human Web (book), 50

The Human-Built World (book), 179

The Industrial Revolution (book), 180

The Life of the Ant (book), 322

The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems

(book), 43-4

The Modern World System (book), 49, 72 The Mothers of Great Men (book), 47 The Origin and Goal of History (book), 48,

148

The Outline of History (book), 47 The Poverty of Philosophy, 10 The Pursuit of Power (book), 50 The Rise of the West (book), 50, 72, 93-5 The Science of Culture (book), 178 The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global

History Since 1900 (book), 183 The Social Construction of Technological

Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (book), 183 The Sociology of World Religions (book), 67 The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism (book), 183 The Tools of Empire: Technology and

Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (book), 183

The War of the Worlds (book), 47 The World: A History (book), 123 Thompson, Elizabeth, 251

Thornton, John, 51 Thrift, Nigel, 103 timelines. See also chronology and idealism, 99-100 as web of practices, 103 geographic, 157-9 migration, 282-307 social, 102-3

Toba volcanic eruption, 346-7 tools. See also artifacts

apes using, 398

in Stone Age and Paleolithic, 341-4 Neanderthal, 404

Topper (Paleoindian site), 473 Toynbee, ArnoldJ., 5-6, 48, 71-2,

85, 92-3 trade. See also economics

ancient, 121-2

and capitalism, 302-4, 305 and intermarriage, 249-50 and migration, 292

Australian hunter gatherer, 448-9 Bronze Age, 273 languages evolve in, 122 voyages in, 124-9

Transactions (journal), 172 transnational history, 51, 73-9 tropics (migration to), 282-3 Tshitolian culture, 376

Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, 46

Turkey

and Indo-European language development, 118

importance of European history in, 68

pastoralists, 298, 334

Turner, FrederickJackson, 90-1 Tusi, Nasir al-Din al-, 147 Tylor, Edward, 19, 261

Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Economic Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (book), 180 unilineal descent systems, 380

United Nations, 120

United States

economic history in, 224

homosexuality, 251

scholarship, 76, 174-7 sterilization in, 229 universal history

and Axial Age, 149-50

and fire, 185-206

as primitive world history, 42-5, 47-9 definition, 62

of bow and arrow, 354

of shamanistic rock art, 358-9

timelines, 91-8

trade in, 45-7

Universal History (book), 4 universals (scepticism of), 5-6 Upper Paleolithic

cave art, 359

in Europe, 31, 406-10, 411

technology, 368

urbanization, 300, 307

Usher, Abbott Payson, 10, 172

Ussher, James, 111

Valdes, Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y, 61 values. See moral sense

Vico, Giambattista, 46-7

Vierendeel, Arthur, 172 village museums, 170 Voltaire, Jean-Marie de, 45, 63, 85 Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte (book),

148

von Lippman, E. O., 172

von Poppe, Johann Heinrich Moritz, 9, 11, 165, 172

Wallerstein, Immanuel, 49, 72

Wang Feng, 269

Wang Ling, 181

Wang Tao, 47

Wang Yinglai, 181

warfare. See also military history

and fire, 193

and gender recruiting, 252 beginnings of, 25 bow and arrow, 354 caused by fire, 203

Early Modern Period cultural, 62 in decline, 120

Paleolithic era, 323

Warner, Lloyd, 263 water. See maritime migration

Weber, Max, 4, 67, 268, 272, 274

Wei Yuan, 45

Wells, H. G., 47, 52

Weltgeschichte (book), 88

Western civilization

and ideas of marriage, 223, 389-90

and science development, 148, 389-90 and the women's movement, 238-40 modernization analysis, 49-50 scholarship in, 69, 136-53, 265 technology history in, 165-6, 176

When Asia Was the World (book), 125 Whiggism, 168-70, 171, 171

White, Colin, 51

White, Hayden, 88

White, Leslie, 11, 177, 181

White, Lynn Jr., 178

Whitney, Leon, 229 Wiesner-Hanks, Merry, 52

William of Tyre (Archbishop), 127 Williams, Eric, 71

Wilson, Kathleen, 256

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 159

WLH3 (Aboriginal remains), 438-9, 445 Wolf, Eric, 8, 20, 140, 272

Wolff, Christian, 63

Woman as Force in History (book), 48 Woman's Record (book), 47 women. See also gender

and childbirth, 326

and kinship groups, 356-7

and role in production, 13

and technology history, 180

in Southeast Asian marriages, 224 in violent societies, 325 language excluding, 241 mass marketing universal histories, 47 matrilineal descent systems, 377-8 Women Worth Emulating (book), 47 womens movement, 238-40 woolly mammoth. See megafauna die-off work. See also industrial revolution and migration 20, 72, 286, 294, 303 and technology 175, 180 in agriculture 195, 200, 208, 213 gender divisions in 221, 229, 236, 247, 333

World Accumulation (book), 49 world anthropology, 268

World History Connected (e-journal), 53 world history writing. See also scholarship dependency theory, 49 for mass audiences, 47, 53 global exchanges, 45-6 globalization of, 51-2 modernization analysis, 49-50 philosophical foundation for, 46-7 post Cold War, 73-9 postcolonial world history scholarship, 98-100

postmodern, 99-104 professionalization of, 64-9 relational shift in, 50-1 secularization of, 141-4, 144 twentieth century, 69-73 world-system analysis, 50

World-Noted Women (book), 47 world-system analysis, 50

Wrangham, Richard, 12-13, 193-4, 323 Wright, Robert, 52

writing

and oral traditions, 19, 265-6

as divider between oral and literate

societies, 267-8

as start of history, 111

Bronze Age, 270-4

ice age, 330

WWII. See Second World War

Xue Fucheng, 47

Yan Fu, 47

Yangshao culture, 214, 216 Younger Dryas age, 387-93, 470

Zhou Enlai, 184

Zhoukhoudian (archaeology site), 324

Zi Zhi Tong Jian (book), 44 Zinsser, Judith, 52

Zvorykin, Anatolii, 176