Clement A. Tisdell is Professor Emeritus of the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia.Serge Svizzero is Professor in the Faculté de Droit et d’Economie at the Université de La Réunion, France.

• 1. An Overview of Our Perspectives on the Economic Development and Sustainability of Ancient Societies PART I: ECONOMICS OF HUNTING AND GATHERING SOCIETIES 2.Stages of Early Economic Development: Economic Evolution and the Diversity of Societies 3. Traditional Economies of Australian Aborigines – Their Sustainability, Desirability and Sahlins’ Hypothesis 4. The Sustainability and Economic Development Options of Foragers: New Economic Analysis 5. The Lengthy Endurance of Hunting and Gathering Economies PART II: THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: THE TRANSITION TO AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AGRICULTURE 6. A Reconsideration of Theories about the Commencement of Agriculture and New Suggestions 7. Alternatives to and a Critique of Economic Optimization Theories as a Determinant of the Transition to Agriculture 8. Contemporary Thought and Childe’s Theory of Economic Development and the Agricultural Revolution PART III: EVOLUTION OF EARLY ECONOMIES AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF AGRICULTURE 9. Analysis of Why Some Agrarian Societies Avoided the Malthusian Trap and Developed 10. Economic and Ecological Reasons Why the Silesian Únĕtice Population Disappeared 11. The Palatial Economic Development of Minoan and Mycenaean States 12. Barter and the Origins of Money: Insights from the Ancient Palatial Economies of Mesopotamia and Egypt 13. Phoenicia: Its Economic Development Before its use of Coinage

Clement A. Tisdell is Professor Emeritus of the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia.Serge Svizzero is Professor in the Faculté de Droit et d’Economie at the Université de La Réunion, France.

• 1. An Overview of Our Perspectives on the Economic Development and Sustainability of Ancient Societies PART I: ECONOMICS OF HUNTING AND GATHERING SOCIETIES 2.Stages of Early Economic Development: Economic Evolution and the Diversity of Societies 3. Traditional Economies of Australian Aborigines – Their Sustainability, Desirability and Sahlins’ Hypothesis 4. The Sustainability and Economic Development Options of Foragers: New Economic Analysis 5. The Lengthy Endurance of Hunting and Gathering Economies PART II: THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: THE TRANSITION TO AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AGRICULTURE 6. A Reconsideration of Theories about the Commencement of Agriculture and New Suggestions 7. Alternatives to and a Critique of Economic Optimization Theories as a Determinant of the Transition to Agriculture 8. Contemporary Thought and Childe’s Theory of Economic Development and the Agricultural Revolution PART III: EVOLUTION OF EARLY ECONOMIES AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF AGRICULTURE 9. Analysis of Why Some Agrarian Societies Avoided the Malthusian Trap and Developed 10. Economic and Ecological Reasons Why the Silesian Únĕtice Population Disappeared 11. The Palatial Economic Development of Minoan and Mycenaean States 12. Barter and the Origins of Money: Insights from the Ancient Palatial Economies of Mesopotamia and Egypt 13. Phoenicia: Its Economic Development Before its use of Coinage

Clement A. Tisdell is Professor Emeritus of the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia.Serge Svizzero is Professor in the Faculté de Droit et d’Economie at the Université de La Réunion, France.

• 1. An Overview of Our Perspectives on the Economic Development and Sustainability of Ancient Societies PART I: ECONOMICS OF HUNTING AND GATHERING SOCIETIES 2.Stages of Early Economic Development: Economic Evolution and the Diversity of Societies 3. Traditional Economies of Australian Aborigines – Their Sustainability, Desirability and Sahlins’ Hypothesis 4. The Sustainability and Economic Development Options of Foragers: New Economic Analysis 5. The Lengthy Endurance of Hunting and Gathering Economies PART II: THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: THE TRANSITION TO AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AGRICULTURE 6. A Reconsideration of Theories about the Commencement of Agriculture and New Suggestions 7. Alternatives to and a Critique of Economic Optimization Theories as a Determinant of the Transition to Agriculture 8. Contemporary Thought and Childe’s Theory of Economic Development and the Agricultural Revolution PART III: EVOLUTION OF EARLY ECONOMIES AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF AGRICULTURE 9. Analysis of Why Some Agrarian Societies Avoided the Malthusian Trap and Developed 10. Economic and Ecological Reasons Why the Silesian Únĕtice Population Disappeared 11. The Palatial Economic Development of Minoan and Mycenaean States 12. Barter and the Origins of Money: Insights from the Ancient Palatial Economies of Mesopotamia and Egypt 13. Phoenicia: Its Economic Development Before its use of Coinage