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Titolo: | The origins of agriculture / / Charles A. Reed, editor |
Pubblicazione: | The Hague : , : Mouton, , [1977] |
©1977 | |
Edizione: | Reprint 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1064 p.) |
Disciplina: | 630/.9 |
Soggetto topico: | Agriculture - Origin |
Agriculture, Prehistoric | |
Prehistoric peoples | |
Classificazione: | ZA 80000 |
Altri autori: | ReedCharles A |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The origins of agriculture |
ISBN: | 3-11-081348-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823768303321 |
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