Select Sources
Environmental history
- J.R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001).
- Dan Allosso, American Environmental History (Minneapolis: Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project, 2019) at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/648.
Hunter-Gatherers
- Most of this information can be found in any decent world history textbook. For more information see, e.g., Carol R. Ember, “Hunter-Gatherers” at Yale University, Human Relations Area Files: Explaining Human Culture, https://hraf.yale.edu/ehc/summaries/hunter-gatherers, accessed 10 Jul., 2024.
Secondary sources about Gilgamesh
- Joan Acocella, “How To Read ‘Gilgamesh’,” New Yorker 7 October, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/how-to-read-gilgamesh.
- Carolina López-Ruiz, “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” World Epics blog at Columbia University, https://edblogs.columbia.edu/worldepics/project/gilgamesh/.
- Ira Spar, “Gilgamesh” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbronn Timeline of Art History—Essays, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gilg/hd_gilg.htm.
Epic of Gilgamesh: Primary source
- For one of the most recent translations of Gilgamesh, see Sophus Helle, Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), Kindle Edition.
- For a free 1998 translation of the story, see The Epic of Gilgamesh, Maureen Gallery Kovacs, translator, at https://people.uncw.edu/deagona/myth/Gilgamesh 1-4.pdf .
