1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910159021303321

Autore

Barker Graeme

Titolo

The agricultural revolution in prehistory [[electronic resource] ] : why did foragers become farmers? / / Graeme Barker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-191765-6

1-282-23500-1

9786612235009

0-19-155766-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (615 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

630.93

Soggetti

Agriculture, Prehistoric

Agriculture - Origin

Plants, Cultivated - Origin

Plant remains (Archaeology)

Hunting and gathering societies

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-526) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?

ReferencesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000695699707536

Autore

Cattaneo, Carlo

Titolo

Appunti di meccanica analitica / Carlo Cattaneo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : La Goliardica, [1973]

Edizione

[ed. riv. e corr]

Descrizione fisica

101 p. ; 23 cm.

Classificazione

AMS 70-01

AMS 70-XX

Disciplina

531

Soggetti

Mechanics of particles and systems-textbooks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia