Mellen Books by: Andrey Korotayev

• World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations: a Cross-Cultural Perspective

About Andrey Korotayev

About the author: Andrey Korotayev is Head and Professor of the “Anthropology of the East” Program, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. He also chairs the Advisory Committee in Cross-Cultural Research for “Social Dynamics and Evolution” Program at the University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD from Manchester University, and Doctor of Sciences degree from the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Ancient Yemen (Oxford University Press, 1995), Pre-Islamic Yemen (Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996) and Social Evolution (Nauka, 2003).