I. Paleolithic hunters and gatherers. The idea of man's antiquity / Glyn E. Daniel ; Stone tools and human behaviero / Sally R. Binford and Lewis R. Binford ; The food-sharing behavior of protohuman hominids / Gylnn Isaac ; The evolution of Paleolithic art / André Leroi-Gourhan ; The Stone-Age man on the Nile / Philip E.L. Smith ; A Paleolithic camp at Nice / Henry De Lumley ; Shanidar Cave / Ralph S. Solecki ; Isimila: a Paleolithic site in Africa / F. Clark Howell -- II. Neolithic villagers and farmers. The agricultural revolution / Robert J. Braidwood ; An earlier agricultural revolution / Wilhelm G. Solheim II ; Obsidian and the origins of trade / J.E. Dixon, J.R. Cann, and Colin Renfrew ; Ancient Jericho / Kathleen M. Kenyon ; A Neolithic city in Turkey / James Mellaart ; 17,000 years of Greek prehistory / Thomas W. Jacobsen ; An early farming village in Turkey / Halet Çambel and Robert J. Braidwood ; The earliest precursor of writing / Denise Schmandt-Besserat --

III. Bronze Age cities and civilizations. The origin of cities / Robert M. Adams ; The Sumerians / Samuel Noah Kramer ; The decline of the Harapppans / George F. Dales ; A forgotten civilization of the Persian Gulf / P.V. Glob and T.G. Bibby ; An early city in Iran / C.C. and Martha Lamberrg-Karlovsky ; The tombs of the first pharoahs / Walter B. Emery ; Life in Mycenaean Greece /John Chadwick ; An Assyrian trading outpost / Tahsin Özgüç

IV. European communitites : Neolithic to Medieval. Prehistoric Swiss lake dwellers / Hansjürgen Müller-Beck ; Carbon 14 and the prehistory of Europe / Colin Refrew ; The Tartaria tablets / M.S.F. Hood ; Stonehenge / Jacquetta Hawkes ;The archaeology of Winchester / Martin Biddle ; How the Iron Age began / Robert Maddin, James D. Muhly, and Tamara S. Wheeler.