From the beginning of culture, the hunter-fishers and the origins of farming to the earliest peasant communities and barbarian Europe. List of Illustrations and Maps, Prefatory Note, Man's Place in Nature, The Middle Paleolithic, The Expansion of Human Settlement, Setting the stage for Economic Change, Peasant Communities of Prehistoric Western Asia, The Earliest Peasant Communities in Europe, Barbarian Europe: The Middle Phase, Selected References, Index.