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The agricultural revolution in prehistory : why did foragers become farmers? / / Graeme Barker



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Autore: Barker Graeme Visualizza persona
Titolo: The agricultural revolution in prehistory : why did foragers become farmers? / / Graeme Barker Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.