Sponsoring editor: Larry J. Wilson
Production editor: Margaret Moore
Developmental editor: Jean Stein
Book designer: Pat Dunbar
Cover designer: John Edeen
Artist: Georg Klatt

Cover photographs: Top: Persepolis, capital of the Persian Empire. Bottom: view
of the Temple of the Warriors at the site of Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico.

Illustrations on pages 1, 43, and 119 are reproduced from Handbuch der
Vorgeschichte, C. H. Beck Verlag; courtesy of H. Muller-Karpe.

Copyright © 1979 by The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc. Philippines
copyright 1979 by The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc.

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