From the Book - 1st American ed.
Palaeolithic Period: Mythology of the hunters (c. 20000 to 8000 BCE)
Neolithic Period: Mythology of the farmers (c. 8000 to 4000 BCE)
Early civilisations (c. 4000 to 800 BCE)
Axial Age (c. 800 to 200 BCE)
Post-Axial Period (c. 200 BCE to c. 1500 CE)
Great Western Transformation (c. 1500 to 2000).