The Great Divide

maize/corn
    zebras, 142
    zebu cattle, 291
    Zeno, 347
    Zeus, 99, 346, 347
    Zhou dynasty, 334, 335, 336
    Zhuangzi, 339
    ziggurats, 266
    Ziusudra, 160
    zone of turbulence, 294–6, 459–63
    Zoroaster, 327
    Zoroastrianism, 176–7
    Zunĩ, 203, 207
    Zurich, 280

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Juliet Clutton-Brock (editor), The Walking Larder: Patterns of Domestication, Pastoralism, and Predation , Unwin Hyman, 1989, p.285.
Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image , Viking Arkana, 1991, p. 34.
Benny J. Peiser et al. (editors), ‘Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilizations: Archaeological, Geological, Astronomical and Cultural Perspectives’, British Archaeological Reports, International Series , 1998, p. 51.
Benny J. Peiser et al . (editors), Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilizations: Archaeological, Geological, Astronomical and Cultural Perspectives , British Archaeological Reports, 728, 1998, p. 61.
Benny J. Peiser et al . (editors), Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilizations: Archaeological, Geological, Astronomical and Cultural Perspectives , British Archaeological Reports, 728, 1998, p. 61.
Andrew Sherratt, ‘Alcohol and Its Alternatives’, in Jordan Goodman et al . (editors), Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology , Routledge, 1995, p. 414.
Mark David Merlin, On the Trail of the Ancient Opium Poppy , Associated Universities Press, 1984, p. 233.
Peter T. Furst, Hallucinogens and Culture , Chandler & Sharp, 1976, p. 71.
Nicholas J. Saunders, The People of the Jaguar, The Living Spirit of Ancient America , Souvenir Press, 1989, p. 74.
Nicholas J. Saunders, The People of the Jaguar, The Living Spirit of Ancient America , Souvenir Press, 1989, p. 72.
Richard L. Burger, Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization , 1995, p. 157.
Brian Fagan, Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade , 1991, p. 119; and/or Linda Schele and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya , 1990, p. 267.
Heather Orr and Rex Koontz (editors), Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America , The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California at Los Angeles, 2009, p. 108.
Heather Orr and Rex Koontz (editors), Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America , The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California at Los Angeles, 2009, p. 129.
Heather Orr and Rex Koontz (editors), Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America , The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California at Los Angeles, 2009, p. 271.
Heather Orr and Rex Koontz (editors), Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America , The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California at Los Angeles, 2009, p. 199.
Heather Orr and Rex Koontz (editors), Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America ,The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California at Los Angeles, 2009, p. 274.
Enrique Florescano, The Myth of Quetzalcoatl , 1999, pp. 166, 169 and 170 respectively.

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