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The Great Divide

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by Peter Watson


  Chinook, 441

  Chipawyan people, 9

  Chiriguanes, 532

  Chocano, Daniel Morales, 312

  Chocó, 228

  chocolate see cacao

  Cholollan, 470

  Christianity, 51, 98, 175, 345, 346, 347, 352, 353, 354–5, 356, 379, 444–55, 457, 465, 500, 510, 519–20, 523, 524, 526, 531, 532

  Chu, 336

  Chuan-Muan, 422

  Chukchi, 7–8, 9, 23, 37, 51, 54

  Chukotka, 5

  Chukotskiy Poluostrov/Chukotskiy Peninsula, 6

  Chuncos, 532

  chun˜o, 182–3

  church, 211, 448–50, 451, 455

  Cihuacoahuatl, 217

  Cimmerians, 295

  Cipolla, Carlo M., 454, 455, 459

  Cistercians, 448, 455

  cities, early, 85, 255–70, 271–2

  Claros, 346

  Classic of Documents, 335

  Clavigero, Francisco Javier, 536

  Cleanthes, 346, 375

  Cleisthenes, 363

  Clement of Alexandria, 445

  Clift, Peter, 86, 87, 88, 89, 98, 159, 260, 263, 269

  climate/weather, 30, 46, 75, 76, 81–91, 95–6, 97–9, 114, 127, 154, 159, 259–60, 261, 262, 263, 292, 430–2, 471, 503, 505, 513, 519

  clocks, 457

  cloth see textiles/cloth

  Clovis culture, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 237

  Cluny, 448, 449

  coastline emergence, 40

  coca, 182, 184, 213–15, 224, 231, 387

  cocaine, 213

  Cocijojui, 399

  Codex Borgia, 527

  Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, 527

  Codex Mendoza, 425

  Coe, Michael, 206, 223, 302

  Coe, Sophie, 223

  Cohen, Mark Nathan, 127–8

  Cold War, 50

  Colla, 488

  Collins, Randall, 448

  Colma, 205

  Colombia, 182, 197, 200, 218, 316, 429, 487

  Colorado, 181, 201, 238, 406

  Columbia River, 441

  Columbus, Christopher, xxvi-xxix, 56, 444, 523–4, 544

  comets, 75–6, 155, 156, 157, 158

  Commager, Henry, 533

  commerce see trade/commerce

  Conard, Nicholas, 121

  concuco cultivation, 105, 106

  Confucianism, 324, 336–7, 340, 348, 445, 447, 463

  Confucius, 324, 336–7

  Conquest, the, 422, 476, 518

  Conquistadors, 467–8, 489

  Conrad, Geoffrey, 469, 482, 484, 490, 514

  Constantinople, 460, 499

  Constantius II, 351

  Cook, Captain James, 56

  Copán, 223, 396–7, 436

  copper, 113, 170, 277–8, 278–9, 293, 386, 459

  Copper Age, 170–1

  Copper River, 441

  Coquebila, 219

  Coras, 202

  Corded ware, 167, 169, 170

  Cordilleran Ice Sheet, 58, 65, 66

  Coricancha temple (Temple of the Sun), Cuzco, 489, 493

  corn see maize/corn

  Cortés, Hernán, 422, 467, 475, 478, 487

  Cosmo, Nicola di, 295

  cosmos, levels of the, 48–9, 53, 390, 413, 469, 481, 512

  Costa Rica, 205, 429

  cotton, 107, 143, 256, 257, 311, 381, 384, 461

  Cougnac cave, 119

  Council of Five Hundred, 363, 364

  Covenant, 342

  cows, 121–2, 123, 288, 289, 290, 291–2, 328 see also cattle

  Creager, Joe, 63

  Creamer, Winifred, 258

  creation myths, 23–5, 38, 41–2, 45, 46, 285, 480

  credit, 449, 460

  Crete, 161, 175, 279, 283, 284, 291

  Crimea, 289, 463, 464

  crocodiles, 33, 43, 44, 352

  cromlechs, 149, 153

  crop rotation system, 455, 456

  crops see plants: domestication; names of crops

  Crusades, 451, 453, 454, 462, 465, 501

  Cucina, Andrea, 433

  Cuicuilco, 401

  Cumanos, 218

  cuneiform script, 273–4, 367

  Cupisnique, 311

  Cuzco, 487, 488–9, 490, 491, 493, 494, 495

  Cyprus, 279

  Czech Republic, 77

  Dadiwan culture, 88

  daggers, 279

  Dahlgren, Barbro, 398–9

  Daly, Douglas, 221

  Damascus, 379

  Damascus Basin, 126

  Daneels, Annick, 433

  Dani people, 13–14

  Danube, River, 456, 464

  Danube region, 163, 286

  dao/Tao, 340, 447

  Daoism/Taoism, 324, 445

  Darius, King, 362

  Dark Ages, 449, 454

  dark shamanism, 432, 471, 477, 513

  Darwin, Charles, 159, 538, 540

  date palm, 172

  Datura (jimsonweed), 195, 202–4, 207, 211, 219, 224, 400, 428

  Dawenkou culture, 88

  Dawson, George, 57

  Day, Jane Stevenson, 434

  deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), 211

  Dead Sea, 86

  death, attitudes to, 298, 515–16

  decapitation, 133, 311, 427, 429, 432, 434

  deer, 51, 202, 206–7

  deltas, 30–1, 104, 108

  Demarest, Arthur, 469, 482, 484, 490, 514

  Demeter, 175, 283

  democracy, 360, 363–5, 412, 450, 451

  Demokritos of Abdera, 373, 374

  Denali, 15, 71

  Dendrobates tinctorius, 206

  Dene-Caucasian language family, 19, 38

  Denevan, William N., 541–2

  Denmark, 149, 151, 153, 173

  Desana, 52, 197

  deserts, 98, 250, 253

  Deucalion, 161

  Deuteronomy, 343–4

  Devil Mountain, 64

  Di, 334

  Diamond, Jared, 75, 99, 100, 101, 107, 504

  Díaz, Bernal, 467–8, 475, 479, 499

  Diderot, Denis, 536

  Diegueno Indians, 38

  Dillehay, Thomas, 16, 68, 69, 72

  dingo, 122

  Diodorus, 276

  Dionysos, 174

  diphtheria, 542, 543

  disasters see catastrophes/disasters

  disease, 81, 128, 129, 143, 463–5, 511, 523, 542, 543–4

  Dixon, Robert, 17

  DNA, 3–4, 7–8, 9, 10, 39, 126

  Dnepr region, 142

  Dobyns, 542, 543

  Dodds, E.R., 375

  dogs, 42, 100, 111, 122, 133, 137

  dolmen, 149

  Dolni Věstonice, 77

  Domesday Book, 455

  domestication

  animals, 42, 100, 109–10, 110–12, 115, 121–2, 124–5, 126, 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 138, 141–2, 160,180, 291, 508–9, 512

  plants, 100, 105–10, 113, 124–6, 135, 136, 137, 138, 160, 504, 505–6, 512

  Dong Zhongshu, 340

  donkeys/asses, 111, 142, 280, 281

  Donnelly Ridge, 15

  Dowson, Thomas, 53

  dragons, 43

  Drakon, 361

  Dravidian-speaking people, 177

  Drews, Robert, 281, 296, 325

  drinking vessels, 167–8, 168, 169, 171, 172

  drought, 84–5, 86, 90, 381, 385, 406

  drugs/narcotics/hallucinogens, 53–4, 117–18, 152, 165–8, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 192, 193–5, 196–220, 224, 225, 229, 252–3, 305, 315–16, 317, 318, 319, 321, 322, 326, 387, 400, 405, 415, 416, 417, 428, 432, 506–7, 509, 512, 519

  dukkha, 330, 331, 332

  Dumbarton Oaks collection, 226

  Dumuzi, 284

  Durán, Fray Diego, 219, 424, 528

  ‘dying and rising tree god’ myths, 44, 45, 46

  dysentery, 542, 543

  Dyukhtai, 7, 14, 15, 71

  eagle, 311, 315, 323, 474

  Eannat
um, 274

  Early Archaic period, 68, 242

  earth monster, 308

  earthquakes, 28, 31, 44, 92, 93, 94, 95, 154, 160, 161, 180, 235, 236, 252, 269, 318, 381, 389, 435, 443, 504, 514

  East Asia, 12, 28, 29 see also names of countries

  Eastern St Louis, 410

  Eastern Woodlands, 237

  East-West Corridor, 34, 44–5, 46, 102, 104, 114

  East-West orientation/movement, 45, 100, 102–3, 114, 115, 503, 504, 510, 511

  Ebla, 276

  Economic Botany, 193

  Ecuador, 101, 186, 187, 208, 231, 257, 314, 317, 320, 386, 487, 494

  Eden, expulsion from, 134, 349

  edentates, 67

  egalitarianism, 336, 337, 338, 356, 357, 364, 502

  Egtved, 173

  Egypt, 44, 86, 99, 100, 103, 104, 108, 115, 156, 161, 165, 173, 175, 250, 254, 255, 257, 258, 275, 276, 280, 282, 283, 284, 291, 294, 349, 350, 352, 359, 366, 368, 371, 377, 459, 460, 464

  einkorn wheat, 125

  Einstein, Albert, 155

  El, 340, 350

  Elam (people), 85–6, 273

  Elburz mountains, 277

  Elea, 376

  elephants, 67

  Eleusian mysteries, 175

  Eliade, Mircea, 150

  Elijah, 341, 342

  elks, 52, 65, 71

  Elliott, John, 524, 530

  El Manatí, 302, 306

  El Mirador, 394

  El Nin˜o/ENSO (El Nin˜o Southern Oscillation), 41, 84–5, 89–91, 92, 156, 180, 235, 236, 263, 269, 318, 381, 384, 389, 430, 431, 435, 484, 504, 512, 513, 515, 517, 519

  Elohim, 342, 343

  El Paraiso, 267, 310

  El Salvador, 93, 200, 220, 223, 304, 478, 485

  El Tajin, 418, 423–4, 429, 430

  Elysian Fields, 134

  emmer wheat, 109, 125, 173

  Empedocles of Acragas, 347, 374–5

  En Bas Saline, 186

  encephalitis, 542

  enema rituals, 216

  England, 58, 455 see also Britain/United Kingdom

  English Channel, 501

  Enki, 262

  ENSO see El Nin˜o/ENSO

  Enuma elis (Babylonian Creation myth), 285, 347

  environmental factors see natural/environmental factors

  Eocene era, 62, 67

  epena, 317

  Ephedra, 176, 177

  ephedrine, 176

  Ephesus, 379

  Epic of Creation, 276

  Epic of Gilgamesh, 276

  equids, 142 see also names of animals

  ergot, 177n, 198

  Eridu, 33, 261–2, 263, 264, 265–6, 268, 269

  Erlandson, Jon, 70

  Erythroxylum genus, 213 see also coca

  Eskimo, 50, 52, 201

  Eskimo-Aleut language family, 18, 19

  espingo (Nectandra), 387

  Ethiopia, 124

  Etna, 93

  Euphrates River, 27, 85, 97, 102, 103, 260, 263

  Eurasiatic language family, 18, 19

  Euripides, 324

  Europe, 5, 12, 27, 31, 43, 44, 45, 46, 58, 69, 77–8, 81–2, 93, 100, 101, 106, 116–17, 126, 128, 137, 142, 143, 144, 146–7, 148, 149–54, 162–3, 165, 166–7, 169, 171, 172, 178, 194, 211, 222, 279, 280, 365, 444–59, 460, 462, 463, 464–5, 499, 501, 511, 525, 529, 544 see also names of countries

  Eve, 134, 135

  Evenk, 49–50

  evolution, 372, 538

  experimental approach, 363

  experimental method, 457

  Eyak, 441

  eyeglasses, 457

  Eynan-Mallaha, 130

  Ezekiel, 344

  Fagan, Brian, 15, 132, 300, 305, 315, 386, 389, 398, 407, 474, 481

  Fairbanks, 15

  Fall,mythofthe, 134–5

  Farah, Caesar, 447

  farming see agriculture/farming

  Fate Bell Shelter, 195

  Feathered Serpent/Plumed Serpent, 307–8, 391, 397 see also Quetzalcoatl; Vision Serpent

  Fedorov, Ivan, 56

  felines, 226–34, 311, 323, 388 see also jaguar; puma

  Ferdinand, King, xvi, 530

  Fertile Crescent, 85–6, 107, 108, 124, 125, 126, 127, 137, 277, 460 see also names of places

  fertility, 46, 107, 122, 124, 131, 133, 137, 154, 164, 225, 234, 235, 307, 388, 437, 504, 507–8, 511, 512

  figurines, 33, 77, 119–21, 123, 131, 133, 136, 163, 230, 304, 304, 309, 411, 419, 420

  Finland, 205

  fire, 74, 219

  fireballs, 157

  fire-serpents, 399

  fire shrines/fire rituals, 175–7

  First Dynasty (Egypt), 350

  fish/fishing, 148, 240–1, 250, 256, 258, 259, 262, 264, 268, 455

  Flanders, 454, 455, 465

  Flannery, Kent, 399

  Flannery, Timothy, 11, 69, 72, 96

  flax, 107, 125, 143, 144, 465

  flaying, 482, 483

  ‘flood comet’, 156, 289

  floods/flood myths, 23, 26–35, 37, 38–9, 40, 41, 43–4, 45, 66, 81, 154, 160–1, 260

  Florence, 451

  Florentine Codex, 530

  Florescano, Enrique, 120, 481, 513–14

  Florida, 70, 218, 242, 408, 409, 410, 525

  fluting/fluted points, 70, 71–4, 75, 238

  fly-agaric (Amanita muscaria), 53–4, 200, 201

  flying carpets, 177

  Folsom culture, 73–4, 237–8

  founder crops, 107, 108, 125

  four elements, 374–5

  Frampton, John, 528

  France, 45, 48, 49, 50, 77–8, 116–17, 117, 119, 122, 149, 151–2, 153–4, 165, 166, 167, 207

  Franklin, Benjamin, 536

  Frazer, Sir James, 26

  Frede, Michael, 346, 347, 348

  free will, 445, 447

  Freidel, David, 390, 393

  French language, 17

  Frison, George, 239

  frogs, 205, 206

  fulling machines, 456

  Funnel Beaker Culture/TRB, 167, 170

  Furst, Peter, 53, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 200, 202, 203, 206, 207

  Galapagos Islands, 538

  Galen, 166

  Gallipoli peninsula, 374

  Ganga, 97

  Ganges delta, 30, 104

  Ganges River, 35, 36, 97–8, 329

  Gateway God, 384, 403, 490

  Gault, Texas, 78

  Gavrinis, 152, 167

  Gé, 207

  Geib, P.R., 73

  Geist, Valerius, 66

  Gellner, Ernest, 294, 366–7, 444, 445, 446

  Genesis, 24, 44, 98, 134–5, 136, 341, 342, 353

  genetics, 3–14, 17, 19, 21, 37, 39, 65, 66

  Genghis Khan, 461, 462, 499

  Genoa, 451, 462

  Genographic Project, 7–8, 9, 10, 13

  Georgia, 41, 534

  Gerbi, Antonello, 537

  Germany, 108, 121, 153, 165, 166, 167, 460

  Ghana, 124

  Ghassulian culture, 145

  Ghent, 454, 465

  Giddings, Louis, 61

  Gila River, 407

  Gilbert of Tournai, 446

  Gilchrist, John, 444

  Giles of Verraccio, 452

  Gilgal, 126, 341

  Gimbutas, Marija, 120, 163

  Girard, Réné, 160, 355

  glaciers, 6, 30, 31, 58, 59, 65, 82–3, 89, 94

  glutton, 66

  glyptodonts, 67

  goats, 34, 110, 111, 115, 123, 126, 289, 290, 348–9, 350, 508, 543

  Gobi desert, 287

  goddesses, 97–8, 120, 122, 123, 136–7, 153, 162–4, 175, 198–9, 199, 205, 206, 217, 249, 283–6, 297, 310, 327, 507

  Goddess of the Animals, 283

  Goddess of the Double Axe, 283

  Goddess of the Sacred Knot, 283

  Goddess with the Crown of Doves and Bull’s Horns, 283

  Goddess with the Poppy Crown, 283

  gods, 98, 99, 122, 131, 137–8, 156, 159, 174, 17
5, 215–20, 222, 230, 232, 234, 236, 262, 263, 285, 291, 297, 298, 306, 307, 309, 310, 314–15, 320–1, 322–3, 326, 329, 332–3, 340, 341, 343, 346–7, 348, 352, 363–4, 372, 377, 383, 384, 387, 388, 391, 393, 395, 401–2, 403, 413, 414, 417, 419, 426, 436, 469–71, 473, 474, 475, 476, 478–9, 480, 481, 483, 485, 490, 507–8, 510, 512, 513, 514, 519

  Goethe, 536

  gold, 318, 321, 322, 377, 386, 387, 459, 489, 490, 524

  Golden Calf, 341

  Goldsmith, Oliver, 534

  Gomorrah, 156

  Gorka, Tomasz, 383

  Gosthastami, 292

  Gotama, Siddhatta see Buddha

  Gothic language, 354

  gourds (Lagenaria siceraria), 242

  Granada, 166, 500

  Gran Chaco, 206

  Grant, Michael, 376

  graves see burials/graves/cemeteries

  Gravettian period, 77, 119, 120

  Great Chain of Being, 540

  Great East-West Corridor, 34, 44–5, 46, 102, 104, 114

  Great Goddess, 122, 137, 153, 162–4, 249, 283–6, 310, 327, 507 see also Mother Goddess

  Great Interchange, 67

  Great Jaguar Paw, 395

  Great Lakes, 65, 409, 533

  Great Plains, 53, 237, 544

  Great Serpent Mound, 409

  Great Snake Goddess, 283

  Great Wall of China, 286, 462

  Greece/Greeks/Hellenistic world, 24, 81, 108, 144, 161, 163, 170, 175, 283, 296, 324, 346, 347, 351–2, 355–6, 359–65, 367, 368, 369, 370–7, 378–9, 444, 447, 510

  Greek language, 18, 291, 379, 459

  Green Bay, 529

  Greenberg, Joseph, 18, 20

  Greene, Mott T., 177n, 198, 371, 447

  Greenland, 67

  Greenland Ice Sheet, 58

  Gregory, 157

  Grosseteste, Robert, 457

  Groube, Les, 128, 129

  Grove, David C., 307, 308, 309, 310

  Grozdev, Mikhail, 56

  Gryllus, 352

  Guacar, 95

  Guajiros, 218

  guanaco, 313, 512, 539

  Guanahaní, xxvii, xxix, 523

  guano, 386

  Guatemala, 92, 199, 200, 206, 218, 220, 221, 390, 394, 421, 470, 476, 478, 485 see also Maya

  Guatemala City, 200

  Guila Naquitz cave, 185

  guinea fowl, 115

  guinea pigs, 100, 111, 112, 183

  Gulf of Aqaba, 260

  Gulf of Mexico, 95, 96, 301, 390, 393, 407, 409, 468, 472, 476, 478

  Gulf of Oman, 86

  gunpowder, 280

  Gupta, 102, 332

  Guthrie, R. Dale, 14–15, 63, 74–5

  Guyana, 206, 432

  Haas, Jonathan, 258

  Hadad, 99

  haematite, 277

  hallucinogens see drugs/narcotics/hallucinogens

  Hammurabi’s Code, 276–7, 291

  Han, 102, 103, 166, 461

  haoma see soma/haoma

  haplogroups, 8–9

  M130, 8–9, 19, 21, 37, 38

  M242, 7–8

  Harappa civilisation, 36, 87, 103, 141, 328

  harmala alkaloids, 196–7 see also harmaline; harmine

 

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