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

• Autore: Barker Graeme
• 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? ; 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.
• 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
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.