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Autore |
Barker Graeme |
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Titolo |
The agricultural revolution in prehistory [[electronic resource] ] : why did foragers become farmers? / / Graeme Barker |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-191765-6 |
1-282-23500-1 |
9786612235009 |
0-19-155766-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (615 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Agriculture, Prehistoric |
Agriculture - Origin |
Plants, Cultivated - Origin |
Plant remains (Archaeology) |
Hunting and gathering societies |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2006. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-526) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; 1. Approaches to the Origins of Agriculture; 2. Understanding Foragers; 3. Identifying Foragers and Farmers; 4. The 'Hearth of Domestication'? Transitions to Farming in South-West Asia; 5. Central and South Asia: the Wheat/Rice Frontier; 6. Rice and Forest Farming in East and South-East Asia; 7. Weed, Tuber, and Maize Farming in the Americas; 8. Africa: Afro-Asiatic Pastoralists and Bantu Farmers?; 9. Transitions to Farming in Europe: Ex Oriente Lux?; 10. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Addressing one of the most debated revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming, this title takes a global view, and integrates an array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. |
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