Hauser Arnold. The Social History of Art. Volume I: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

Third Edition. — Routledge, London & New York, 1999. — 274 p.Hauser’s first volume deals with the beginnings of human settlement in paleolithic or 'Stone Age' times and progresses — breathlessly — up to the end of the Middle Ages. He includes discussion on the nature and place of art in the 'old' and 'new' Stone Ages, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Cretan, Greek and Roman times. The second half of the volume divides the notoriously homogenized Middle Ages into three distinct historical periods.General introduction
Introduction to Volume IPrehistoric Times
Ancient-oriental urban cultures
Greece and rome
The middle ages