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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788976503321

Titolo

The origins of agriculture / / Charles A. Reed, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The Hague : , : Mouton, , [1977]

©1977

ISBN

3-11-081348-3

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1064 p.)

Collana

World Anthropology

Classificazione

ZA 80000

Altri autori (Persone)

ReedCharles A

Disciplina

630/.9

Soggetti

Agriculture - Origin

Agriculture, Prehistoric

Prehistoric peoples

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction / REED, CHARLES A. -- SECTION ONE General Principles -- The Origins of Agriculture: Prologue / REED, CHARLES A. -- The Earliest Farming: Demography as Cause and Consequence / BRONSON, BENNET -- The Concept of Environmental Determinism in Cultural Evolution / WAGNER, PHILIP L. -- SECTION TWO Worldwide Concepts -- Cultural Evolution in the Old World and the New, Leading to the Beginnings and Spread of Agriculture / CALDWELL, JOSEPH R. -- A Hypothesis Suggesting a Single Origin of Agriculture / CARTER, GEORGE F. -- Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru / COHEN, MARK N. -- Alternative Pathways Toward Agriculture / HARRIS, DAVID R. -- Zoological Considerations on the Origins of Farming and Domestication / HERRE, WOLF / RÖHRS, MANFRED -- Environmental Change and the Origin of Agriculture in the Old and New Worlds / WRIGHT, HERBERT E. JR. -- SECTION THREE The Beginnings of Agriculture in the Old World -- A Priori Models and Thai Prehistory: A Reconsideration of the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southeastern Asia / GORMAN, CHESTER -- The Origins of Cereal Agriculture in the Old World / HARLAN, JACK R. -- Economic Change in Prehistoric Thailand / HIGHAM, CHARLES F. W. -- The Indigenous Origins of Chinese Agriculture / HO, PING-TI -- Pre-Agricultural Tools for the Preparation



of Foods in the Old World / KRAYBILL, NANCY -- Man, Domestication, and Culture in Southwestern Asia / REDMAN, CHARLES L. -- A Model for the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East / REED, CHARLES A. -- Changing Economy in Ancient India -- The Dynamics of Agricultural Origins in Palestine: A Theoretical Model / HASSAN, FEKRI A. -- SECTION FOUR The Beginnings of Agriculture in the New World -- The Origin of Zea mays / BEADLE, GEORGE W. -- Why Didn't the American Indians Domesticate Sheep? / CARR, CHRISTOPHER -- The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World / CARTER, GEORGE F. -- Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd: Spinden Revisited, or a Unitary Model for the Emergence of Agriculture in the New World / LATHRAP, DONALD W. -- The Beginning of Agriculture in Central Peru / MacNEISH, RICHARD S. -- Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics / PICKERSGILL, BARBARA / HEISER, CHARLES B. JR. -- Animal Domestication in the Anaes / WING, ELIZABETH S. -- Native Plant Husbandry North of Mexico / YARNELL, RICHARD A. -- SECTION FIVE Conclusions -- Origins of Agriculture: Discussion and Some Conclusions / REED, CHARLES A. -- SECTION SIX Appendix -- A Radiocarbon Chronology Relevant to the Origins of Agriculture / KABAKER, ADINA -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects