The Cambridge Ancient History

Stanley Arthur Cook, Martin Percival Charlesworth, John Bagnell Bury, John Bernard Bury

Cambridge University Press, 1924 - History, Ancient

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Contents

• Israel and Judah from Jehu until the period of Assyrian: 11
• The Stone Age in the Central Balkan Area: 75
• The Eneolithic period in the Central Balkan Area: 136
• The Bronze Age in the Central Balkan Area page: 163
• The Prehistory of Albania: 187
• The period of transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron: 228
• PART II: 234
• by A K Grayson Professor of Assyriology in the University: 241
• Adadnirari II 911891 B C: 249
• ShamshiAdad V 823811 B c: 269
• The interval 782745 B C: 276
• 4: 314
• in Geography and environment of Urartu: 322
• the origins of Urartu: 328
• Urartian art and archaeology: 365
• The NeoHittite states in Syria and Anatolia: 372
• the Babylonian Empire in the West: 433
• SyroHittite civilization: 439
• The period in general: 448
• The division of the Kingdom: 455
• domination 841c 750 B C page: 488
• Cyprus: 511
• from the Twentysecond to the Twentyfourth: 534
• PART III: 581
• Illyris Epirus and Macedonia in the Early Iron Age page: 619
• Central Greece and Thessaly: 657
• The Peloponnese: 696
• 18a East Greece: 745
• 18b The islands: 754
• B Western Asia page 930: 774
• The Geometric culture of Greece: 779
• zoa The earliest alphabetic writing page: 794
• zob Greek alphabetic writing: 819
• zor Linguistic problems of the Balkan area in the late prehistoric: 834
• zod The Greek language and the historical dialects: 850
• The dialects: 860
• zoe Balkan languages Illyrian Thracian and DacoMoesian: 866
• Abbreviations Aage: 901
• Assyria and Babylonia: 932
• Urartu: 941
• rv Syria and Anatolia: 949
• w Israel and Judah: 955
• Egypt: 966
• Greece and the Aegean: 974
• Central Greece and Thessaly: 977
• Argolis and Epidaurus: 980
• Corinthia and Megaris: 982
• Achaea Arcadia Eleia and Messenia: 983
• East Greece: 984
• Euboea and the Cyclades: 985
• Cyprus: 987
• E Development of Writing: 989
• Greek alphabetic writing: 997
• The Greek language and the historical dialects: 998
• Index 1oo9: 1009

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Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge Ancient History
• Editors: Stanley Arthur Cook, Martin Percival Charlesworth, John Bagnell Bury, John Bernard Bury
• Contributors: Sir Frank Adcock, John Boardman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1924
• ISBN: 0521224969, 9780521224963