The tree of culture

Part One. In the beginning : 1. On the way to homo sapiens

2. The Pleistocene age

Part Two. Evolutionary processes : 3. Race

4. Society, culture and the individual

5. Processes of cultural change

6. Cultural evolution

Part Three. Basic inventions : 7. Fire and tools

8. Domestication of plants and animals

9. Metallurgy, writing and technological inventions

10. Cities and states

Part Four. Hunters and food-gatherers : 11. Paleolithic cultures

12. Historic hunters and food-gatherers

Part Five. Southeast Asiatic complex : 13. Southeast Asia Neolithic

14. Oceania and Madagascar

15. Southeast Asia Post-Neolithic

Part Six. Southwest Asia and Europe : 16. Southwest Asia Neolithic

17. Diffusion of the Southwest Asiatic complex

18. European Neolithic

19. Aryans and Turko-Tatars

20. Semites

21. Mesopotamia

22. Near East and Mediterranean

Part Seven. Mediterranean Complex : 23. Crete

24. Greece

25. Barbarians

26. The Roman Peninsula

27. Islam

Part Eight. Africa : 28. Prehistory

29. Egypt

30. Historic African peoples

31. African civilizations

Part Nine. The Orient : 32. Prehistoric India

33. Early historic India

34. Buddhism

35. Pre-Colonial India

36. Prehistoric China

37. Early historic China

38. Late dynastic China

39. Japan

Part Ten. The New World : 40. North American Aborigines

41. High cultures of the South

Conclusion.