Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World

(Sean Pound) #1

  • adornment Vo lu m e I

  • agriculture

  • architecture

  • art

  • astronomy

  • borders and frontiers

  • building techniques and materials

  • calendars and clocks

  • ceramics and pottery

  • children

  • cities

  • climate and geography

  • clothing and footwear

  • craft s

  • crime and punishment

  • death and burial practices Vo lu m e I I

  • drama and theater

  • economy

    • education

    • empires and dynasties

    • employment and labor

    • exploration

    • family

    • festivals

    • food and diet

    • foreigners and barbarians

    • gender structures and roles

    • government organization

    • health and disease

    • household goods

    • hunting, fi shing, and gathering

    • illumination

    • inventions

    • language Volume III

    • laws and legal codes

    • literature

    • metallurgy

    • migration and population movements

    • military

    • mining, quarrying, and salt making

    • money and coinage

    • music and musical instruments

    • natural disasters

    • nomadic and pastoral societies



  • numbers and counting

  • occupations

  • pandemics and epidemics

  • religion and cosmology

  • resistance and dissent

  • roads and bridges

  • sacred sites Vo lu m e I V

  • scandals and corruption

  • science

  • seafaring and navigation

  • settlement patterns

  • ships and shipbuilding

  • slaves and slavery

  • social collapse and abandonment

    • social organization

    • sports and recreation

    • storage and preservation

    • textiles and needlework

    • towns and villages

    • trade and exchange

    • transportation

    • war and conquest

    • weaponry and armor

    • weights and measures

    • writing

    • Glossary

    • Chronology by Region

    • General Bibliography

    • Index



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