Chapter 1 Introducing World Prehistory; PART I BEGINNINGS: 7 Million to 30,000 Years Ago; Chapter 2 Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.89 Million Years ago;
Chapter 3 Archaic Humans: 1.9 Million to 30,000 Years Ago; PART II THE GREAT DIASPORA: THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS (c. 350,000 Years Ago to Modern Times); Chapter 4 Origins and the Diaspora Begins (c. 350,000 Years Ago and later);
Chapter 5 Europe and Eurasia (c. 50,000 to 10,000 Years Ago);
Chapter 6 The First Americans (?c. 23,000 years ago to Modern Times);
Chapter 7 After the Ice (Before 10000 BC to Modern Times); PART III FIRST FARMERS (c. 10,000 BC TO MODERN TIMES); Chapter 8 Agriculture and Animal Domestication; Chapter 9 The Origins of Food Production in Southwest Asia Climate Change and Adaptation;
Chapter 10 The First European Farmers;
Chapter 11 First Farmers in Egypt and Tropical Africa;
Chapter 12 Asia and the Pacific: Rice, Roots, and Ocean Voyages;
Chapter 13 The Story of Maize: Early Farmers in the Americas; PART IV OLD WORLD STATES (c. 3000 BC TO MODERN TIMES); Chapter 14 The Development of States;
Chapter 15 Early States in Southwest Asia;
Chapter 16 Egypt, Nubia, and Tropical Africa;
Chapter 17 Early States in South and Southeast Asia;
Chapter 18 Early Chinese States;
Chapter 19 Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans;
Chapter 20 Europe Before the Romans; PART V NATIVE AMERICAN STATES (BEFORE 2000 BC TO AD 1534); Chapter 21 Mesoamerican States;
Chapter 22 Andean States; Glossary of Technical Terms; Bibliography of World Prehistory; Credits; Index.
