Contents Advisers and Contributors List of Illustrations List of Maps and Primary Source Documents Preface Introduction v xiii xx xxiii xxv Volume I adornment 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 crafts crime and punishment 15 52 87 123 139 150 163 174 187 201 234 272 284 296 Volume II death and burial practices drama and theater economy 311 327 341 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, fishing, and gathering illumination inventions 375 387 425 435 447 461 472 483 493 507 545 560 571 583 592 Volume III language 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 609 621 639 677 688 725 741 751 762 775 786