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Autore: |
Barker Graeme
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Titolo: |
The agricultural revolution in prehistory : why did foragers become farmers? / / Graeme Barker
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (615 p.) |
Disciplina: | 630.93 |
Soggetto topico: | Agriculture, Prehistoric |
Agriculture - Origin | |
Plants, Cultivated - Origin | |
Plant remains (Archaeology) | |
Hunting and gathering societies | |
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? |
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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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The agricultural revolution in prehistory ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-191765-6 |
1-282-23500-1 | |
9786612235009 | |
0-19-155766-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808687403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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