The Great Divide

293, 294, 296, 298, 300, 324, 325, 326, 334, 348, 356, 358, 359, 421
    Iroquois, 39
    irrigation, 86, 255, 257, 258, 260, 261, 263, 311, 386, 407, 487 see also canals
    Isaac, 340
    Isabella, Queen, xvi, 500
    Isaiah, 324
    Ishtar, 284
    Isis, 44, 284
    Islam, 98, 347, 447, 450, 451, 459, 499 see also Muslims
    Isles of the Blessed, 134
    Israel, Rabbi Manasseh, 533
    Israelites see Jews/Israelites/Hebrews
    Italy, 81, 92–3, 163, 174, 451, 465
    Itzamná 414
    Itzcoatl, 477
    Ivory Coast, 124
     
    Jacob, 340
    jade, 307
    jaguar, 53, 180, 183, 197–8, 205, 220, 221, 223, 226–30, 231, 232–4, 235, 236, 303–4, 305, 311, 313, 315, 317, 318, 319, 322, 323, 353, 388, 393, 394, 395, 399, 402, 414, 421, 430, 432, 437–8, 469, 474, 512, 513, 514
    Jainism, 324
    Jalisco, 185
    Japan, xxv, xxviii, 29, 46, 93, 100, 157, 161, 205
    Jaspers, Karl, 324, 345
    javelin, 296
    Jebel Faya, 4
    Jefferson, Thomas, 534–5
    Jeremiah, 153, 324
    Jericho, 126, 132–3
    Jerusalem, 344, 350, 354, 355, 379
    Jesus, 44, 379, 444, 445, 450
    Jews/Israelites/Hebrews, 296, 324, 340–5, 348–50, 352, 368, 369, 444, 510 see also Judaism
    jimsonweed see Datura
    Jina, 331
    Jivaro, 208, 209, 231, 312, 317
    Johnson, Paul, 448
    Johnson, W.A., 57
    Jones, Eric, 450
    Jones, William, 17, 177
    Jordan, 131
    Jordan Valley, 124, 126, 130
    Joyce, Arthur, 484
    Judaism, 98, 324, 340–5, 347, 354, 355 see also Jews/Israelites/Hebrews
    Juderiás, Julián, 524
    Jung, Carl, 26
    Jupiter, 99
    Juracan, 95
    Jura mountains, 117
     
    Kadesh, 281, 295
    Kaelbar, Lutz, 449
    Kalahari, 181
    Kamchatka Peninsula, 11, 15, 50, 53, 93, 533
    Kant, Immanuel, 534
    Karacadağ, 126
    karma, 331
    Karnak annals, 282
    Karwa, 320–1
    Kauyumarie , 202
    kava , 178
    Kaypacha , 311
    Keane, John, 363–4
    Kelvin waves, 83
    Kentucky, 58
    Kenya, 389
    Kets, 11–12
    Khazanov, A.M., 288, 292, 293
    Khiamian culture, 130–1, 132, 164, 249
    Khoisan, 115, 143
    Khwarzim Turks, 460
    Kieri , 202–3
    Kings, Book of, 296
    kingship, 335, 390, 391, 393, 395, 422
    Ki-Ninhursag, 284
    Kircher, Athanius, 539–40
    kivas, 404–5, 406
    Knossos, 161, 284
    knot grass/knotweed, 108, 130
    Kobuk River, 63
    Kogo, 228
    Kolyma basin, 50
    Kong Qiu see Confucius
    Korea, 46, 100
    Koryaks, 53–4
    Kosok, Paul, 382
    Koster, 241, 242
    Kotosh, 311
    koumish, 143, 172
    Kramer, Samuel Noah, 271
    Krishna, 333
    Kroton, 373
    Kubilai Khan, 462
    Kubler, George, 402
    Kukulkan, 436
    Kumbh Mela, 98
    !Kung, 74, 181
    Kuzmina, Elena, 286, 295
    Kwakiutl, 441
    Kyrgystan, 114
     
    La Barre, Weston, 193
    La Brea, 67
    labyrinth, 284
    La Centinela, 186
    lactose tolerance/intolerance, 143, 145, 146
    Lady Xoc, 417, 418
    La Farge, Oliver, 301
    Lafiteau, Joseph-François, 526, 531
    Lagash, 266, 274
    Laguna de los Cerros, 302
    Lahn, Bruce, 12
    Lake Agassiz, 66
    Lake Baikal, 11, 123, 295
    Lake Lunkaransar, 87
    Lake Michigan, 529
    Lake Missoula, 66
    Lake Texcoco, 474, 476–7
    Lake Titicaca, 185–6, 249–50, 253, 312, 384, 487
    Lake Toba, 24
    Lakota, 54
    Lambayeque/Lambayeque Valley, 321, 386, 389
    lances, 295, 296
    Landa, Friar Diego de, 545
    land diver/land raiser myths, 39–40, 41
    Land of Five Rivers, 36
    Land of Seven Rivers, 35–6
    land ownership, 456
    landslides/mudslides, 94, 389
    land-splitting myths, 43–4
    languages, 11, 17–21, 35, 37, 46, 101–2, 109, 147, 186, 188–9, 526
    Lanzón, 314, 319
    Laozi (Lao-tzu), 339
    Lapita Ware, 178
    Lapps, 50
    Laptev Sea, 14
    Las Casas, Bartolomé de, xvi, 524, 526, 527, 530, 531
    Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), 8, 17, 19, 20, 59
    Late Classic period, 223
    latex, 424–5
    Lathrap, Donald, 310
    Latin, 17, 18, 291, 451–2, 459
    Laurentide Ice Sheet, 31, 58, 59, 65
    La Venta, 234, 301, 302, 303, 304, 306, 541
    law/law codes, 276–7, 291, 336, 361, 368
    Layard, Austin Henry, 285
    lead, 278
    Lebanon, 124
    Lemos, 103
    Lena River, 60, 123
    lentils, 107, 125
    Lentz, David, 395
    Le Roy, Louis, 524
    Lesure, Richard G., 308–9
    Leucippus of Miletus, 374
    Levant, 130, 131, 137
    Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 26
    Lewis, Bernard, 450
    Lewis-Williams, David, 53, 117–18, 198
    LGM (Last Glacial Maximum), 8, 17, 19, 20, 59
    L’Helgouach, Jean-Yves, 151–2
    li , 335, 336 337
    libraries, 275–6
    Libyans, 359
    lightning, 399
    Lima Geographical Society, 84
    Lindberg, David, 444, 445, 459
    Lindenmeier, 238
    Linnaeus, 220
    lions, 60, 67
    Lipari Islands, 103
    liptoterns, 67
    lists, 274–5
    literacy, 274, 275, 276, 342, 350, 354, 365, 366, 369, 439–40, 502 see also alphabet; writing
    Little, Lester K., 449
    llama, 100, 101, 111, 112, 140, 148,