The discovery of human antiquity / Paul G. Bahn -- AFRICA. The Taung child: the discovery of the first Australopithecine ; Australopithecines from East Africa ; Olduvai Gorge: Grand Canyon of prehistory ; Out of Africa, always something new ; Southern African rock art: images of power / Anne Thackeray -- Abydos ; The Pyramids at Giza ; Amarna ; Tutankhamen ; Deir El-Medina ; Tanis ; The Rosetta Stone / Steven Snape -- Romans in North Africa / David Gill -- Nigerian art: 'A Fabergé-like virtuosity' ; The greatest Zimbabwe of them all / Anne Thackeray -- EUROPE. Early humans in Western Europe / Paul G. Bahn -- Ice Age settlement of the north ; Mammoth-bone houses of Eastern Europe / John Hoffecker -- Palaeolithic portable art ; Palaeolithic cave art / Paul G. Bahn -- Ice Age art and burials of Central Europe ; Ice Age art and burials of Eastern Europe / John Hoffecker -- The fishers of Lepenski Vir / Peter Bogucki -- Çatal Hüyük / Christopher Edens -- The lake dwellings of the Alpine foreland ; Early Neolithic longhouses in Europe / Peter Bogucki -- Neolithic flint mines ; Houses for the living and the dead ; Flag Fen and the sweet track ; Maltese temples ; Like a circle in a spiral: the mysteries of Megalithic art / Sarah Tarlow -- The Iceman / Paul G. Bahn -- Varna: a copper age cemetery / Peter Bogucki -- Los Millares and Zambujal ; Bronze Age barrows / Sarah Tarlow -- Evans at Knossos ; The decipherment of linear B ; The collapse of the Minoan civilization ; Schliemann at Troy and Mycenae ; Blegen at Pylos ; The Ulu Burun shipwreck / Christopher Mee -- Hallstatt: an early Iron Age mining centre ; Hochdorf: A 'Tut's tomb' of the Iron Age ; Biskupin: A waterlogged Iron Age settlement / Peter Bogucki -- Etruscan tombs ; Vergina / David Gill -- Bog bodies: Faces from the past / Sarah Tarlow -- The Athenian Agora: The heart of democracy ; Aphrodisias ; Mediterranean shipwrecks ; Pompeii and Herculaneum ; Vindolanda / David Gill -- Sutton Hoo ; Viking ship / Sarah Tarlow -- Novgorod: A Medieval city in Russia / Peter Bogucki -- WESTERN AND CENTRAL ASIA. Mount Carmel and the Palaeolithic Age ; Jericho ; Ur ; Babylon ; Ebla and cuneiform writing ; Nineveh and Assyrian palaces ; Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus civilization ; Persepolis / Christopher Edens -- The frozen tombs of Pazyryk and Ukok / Peter Bogucki -- Masada / Steven Snape --
THE FAR EAST. Peking and Java Man / Gina L. Barnes
Rock art of China and India / Paul G. Bahn and Gina L. Barnes
Hongshan and Liangzhu jades ; Statuary of the Far East ; Anyang ; East Asian bronzes ; Royal tombs of the East / Gina L. Barnes
The Terracotta army / Paul G. Bahn
Mural tombs of the Orient ; The Sinan shipwreck / Gina L. Barnes
AUSTRALASIA. Lake Mungo ; Australia's rock art ; Ice Age hunters of Tasmania ; Colonizing the Pacific / Caroline Bird
Easter Island / Paul G. Bahn
THE NEW WORLD. Monte Verde and the first Americans / Katharina Schreiber
Big-game hunting on the North American Plains / Philip Duke
Rock art in the New World / Paul G. Bahn
The discovery of the Olmec / Andrea Stone
Nasca lines ; Chavín / Katharina Schreiber
El Cerén ; Naj Tunich and Maya cave art ; Palenque: The tome of Pacal the Great ; The decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics / Andrea Stone
The Moundbuilders ; Ancient farmers of the desert / Philip Duke
Sipán: Moche culture / Katharina Schreiber
Temple of the feathered serpent, Teotihuacán / Andrea Stone
Tiwanaku: Prehistoric empires in the Andes / Katharina Schreiber
Monte Albán: Tomb / Andrea Stone
Viking settlements of North America / Philip Duke
The Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlán / Andrea Stone
Machu Picchu / Katharina Schreiber
