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The Human Chronicle: Volume I: Prehistory - 1302 BC
Paperback
Series: The Human Chronicle, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 31 2025
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Volume I of 5. World history year by year from before 10,000 BC to 1302 BC: the cave painters and the first temples, the rise of Sumer, Egypt, China, and the Indus Valley, and the age of Abraham and the Exodus.
The first volume of The Human Chronicle covers the longest stretch of time in the series, in seven sections running from the Ice Age to the end of the fourteenth century BC. It opens with the painted caves of Chauvet and Lascaux, the Venus figurines, and the debate over the Younger Dryas, then moves to Göbekli Tepe, the walls of Jericho, and the houses of Çatalhöyük. Feature entries mark the earliest marks that may be writing, from the Jiahu symbols of China and the Dispilio tablet of Greece to cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Indus script, and Linear A and B.
The middle sections follow the first kingdoms. Uruk and the cult of Inanna, Narmer and the unification of Egypt, the first Stonehenge, the pyramids of Giza, Sargon of Akkad, Gilgamesh, and Hammurabi appear in order beside Yu the Great and the Xia dynasty in China, the cities of the Indus, and the palaces of Minoan Crete. The eruption of Thera is placed in its century, and the Sumerian King List and Manetho are quoted beside the archaeology.
Traditional history stands next to the excavated record. Creation is dated by Ussher, by the Hebrew calendar, and by the Septuagint, and the Hebrew years are counted off at 1000 and 2000 AM. The patriarchs from Adam to Abraham, Joseph in Egypt, and the Exodus, dated to 1446 BC from 1 Kings 6:1, share the page with the start of the Kali Yuga, the Irish invasions of Partholón, the Fomorians, and the Tuatha Dé Danann, and the Greek founders Inachus, Cecrops, and Deucalion.
- Before 10,000 BC to 3762 BC: the Ice Age, Göbekli Tepe, Jericho, Çatalhöyük, the first farmers
- 3761 to 2101 BC: Sumer, early dynastic Egypt, the pyramids, Akkad, the Yellow Emperor
- 2100 to 1302 BC: Ur, Hammurabi, the Xia and Shang, Minoan Crete, Thera, Abraham and Moses
- Mainstream and traditional dates given side by side, with notes where a claim may not hold up
About the series: The Human Chronicle is a year-by-year timeline of world history in five volumes, from before 10,000 BC to 2025 AD. Each volume sets events from every region side by side in strict date order and gives the competing dates where the sources disagree. The complete timeline is also available as a single Kindle eBook.
About the author: Jeremy Jasper Owens is a writer, editor, and historian whose books cover Norse myth, the medieval sagas, and world history.
Written for readers of ancient history and early chronology, for students and teachers who want the first civilizations in one sequence, and for readers of myth and scripture who want traditional dates set beside the archaeology.
Continue with The Human Chronicle: Volume II: 1301 BC - 475 AD. Also by Jeremy Jasper Owens: Trójumanna Saga, the first full English translation of the Icelandic saga of the Trojan War.
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