The Great Divide

494
    American Bottom, 410
    Amerind, 18–19, 39
    Amistad Reservoir area, 195
    Amos, 342
    Amsterdam, 465
    Amuzgo, 188
    Anadenanthera , 204
    colubrine , 207, 317
    Anangula, 16
    Anasazi, 404, 406, 407
    Anatolia, 131, 137, 171, 284, 290, 362
    Anaxagoras of Klazomenai, 374
    Anaximander, 347, 372–3, 376
    Anaximenes, 373, 376
    ancestors, 132–3, 152, 254, 334
    worship, 492–3
    Ancestral Twins/Hero Twins, 393, 426
    Andalusia, 500
    Anderson, David G., 72
    Andes, 9, 94–5, 100, 101, 112, 124, 181–4, 187, 188, 191, 194, 207, 230, 232, 249, 257, 258, 263, 310–12, 317, 318, 382–3, 389, 403, 424, 487, 491, 494, 517, 543, 545 see also names of civilisations; names of places
    Andronovo culture (Sintashta-Petrovka culture), 293, 296
    animals
    and arrival of humans in New World, 66–8
    attitude of hunting societies to, 51–2
    and Beringia, 59–60, 61, 62–3, 63–4, 64–5
    and cave art, 122–3
    changing beliefs about, 350–3
    developments made possible by domestication, 139–48, 508–11
    distribution of, 56–7
    domestication, 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
    mega-mammals, 66–7, 68, 73, 74–6, 78, 127, 129
    sacrifice, 160, 284, 326–7, 328, 343, 344–5, 348, 349, 351, 352–3, 515, 517, 519 see also hunting; names of animals
    Anselm of Canterbury, 458
    Antarctica, 58, 156, 214
    antelope, 60
    anthrax murrain, 464
    Antofagasta, 250, 251
    Antwerp, 465
    Anzick, 65
    Apollo, priests of, 346
    Apollo landing, 155
    Apollonius, 352
    Appalachian Mountains, 96, 101
    Aquinas, St Thomas, 444, 446, 449, 457–8
    Arabia/Arabian Peninsula, 4, 34, 89, 142, 260
    Arabian Gulf see Persian Gulf/Arabian Gulf
    Arabian Sea, 24, 461
    Arabic, 291, 459
    Arabs, 161
    Aramaic, 368
    Arawaks, 218, 228
    archers/bowmen, 282, 294, 295
    Arctic, 14, 15, 50, 82, 441
    arctic hysteria ( meryak or menerik ), 51, 254
    Arctodus ( Arctodus sinus ), 60 , 66
    Areopagus Council, 362
    Arequipa, 95
    Argentina, 8, 70, 106, 155–6, 157, 205, 487, 539
    Arica, 250, 252
    Aristides, Aelius, 346
    Aristotelians, 346
    Aristotle, 347, 351, 352, 371, 377, 447, 453, 457, 458
    Arizona, 406, 407
    Arjuna, 333
    Ark of the Covenant, 341
    armadillo, 67, 539
    Armenian language, 354
    armour, 281
    Armstrong, Karen, 326, 328, 330, 334, 337, 344, 345, 361
    Arran, 153
    Arriaza, Bernardo T., 250, 251, 252, 254
    arrows, 296, 358
    arsenias, 251–2
    arsenic, 251–2, 278
    Aryan language, 101
    Aryans, 165, 177, 289, 291, 297, 298, 326–9
    asceticism, 329–30
    Asherah, 343
    Ashurbanipal, 285
    Asia, 57, 59, 60, 67, 69, 93, 97, 141, 147, 148, 194, 278, 294, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 525, 529 see also Central Asia; East Asia; North Asia; North East Asia; South Asia; South East Asia; South West Asia; names of countries
    Asia Minor, 27, 370
    Asian 9–base-pair (9–bp) deletion, 39
    Aspero, 187, 255–7, 258, 259, 263, 266–7, 268, 269, 300, 310, 429
    ASPM (Abnormal Spindle-like Microcephaly-associated), 12, 13
    asses see donkeys/asses
    Assiniboine, 42
    Assyria/Assyrians, 102, 103, 160–1, 290, 295–6, 343, 358, 359
    asteroids, 155, 156, 157, 160, 390
    astrology, 275, 446
    astronomical alignments, 152, 153, 382, 405, 436
    astronomical cycles, 30, 435–6
    astronomy, 275, 413, 436, 446 see also astonomical alignments; astronomical cycles
    Asúa, Miguel de, 540
    Aswan, 126
    Atacama desert, 250, 252, 254
    Atahualpa, 494, 495
    Athabaskan tribe, 9, 39
    Athanassiadi, Polyminia, 346, 347, 348
    Athens/Athenians, 175, 360, 361–5
    Atlantic, 61, 82–3, 89, 95, 465, 501, 511
    Atlantic-Indian Ocean basin, 156
    atman , 329, 330
    atomists, 374
    Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade), 211
    atropine, 211
    Attica, 360, 361
    Attila, 460
    Augustine, St, 353, 444, 445, 446, 448, 450
    aurochs, 131, 290–1
    Australia, 5, 9, 20, 23, 27, 34, 68, 69, 78, 82, 84, 93, 95, 100, 106, 110, 111, 114, 140, 156, 518
    Australian aborigines, 122, 181
    Australoid peoples, 143
    Austro-Asiatic languages, 34, 38
    Austronesia, 33, 43
    Axial Age, 325–57, 377, 510
    Ayachucho region, 403
    ayahuasca , 197, 208, 209–10, 211, 212, 219, 253
    ayllu , 489, 495
    Aymara language, 214
    Ayurvedic texts, 177–8
    Aztecs, xxxi, 99, 112,194, 198, 199, 202, 206, 216, 217, 218, 219, 224, 229, 230, 233–4, 237, 389, 402, 421, 426, 428, 429, 433, 436, 437, 439, 467–8, 472, 473, 474, 475–87, 490, 494, 495, 502, 514, 515, 517–18, 530, 531, 536, 538–9, 540, 545
     
    Baal, 99, 340, 341, 343
    Baba, temple of, 266
    Bab al-Mandab Strait,