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Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture / edited by Douglas J. Kennett, Bruce Winterhalder

Kennett, Douglas J. ; Winterhalder, Bruce

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006

Online-Ressource (xiii, 394 p) : ill., maps

Englisch

Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1. Behavioral Ecology and the Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Agriculture; 2. A Future Discounting Explanation for the Persistence of a Mixed Foraging-Horticulture Strategy among the Mikea of Madagascar; 3. Central Place Foraging and Food Production on the Cumberland Plateau, Eastern Kentucky; 4. Aspects of Optimization and Risk During the Early Agricultural Period in Southeastern Arizona; 5. A Formal Model for Predicting Agriculture among the Fremont

6. An Ecological Model for the Origins of Maize-Based Food Production on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico7. The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the Neotropics; 8. Costly Signaling, the Sexual Division of Labor, and Animal Domestication in the Andean Highlands; 9. Human Behavioral Ecology, Domestic Animals, and Land Use during the Transition to Agriculture in Valencia, Eastern Spain; 10. Breaking the Rain Barrier and the Tropical Spread of Near Eastern Agriculture into Southern Arabia; 11. The Emergence of Agriculture in New Guinea

12. The Ideal Free Distribution, Food Production, and the Colonization of Oceania13. Human Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Food Production; 14. Agriculture, Archaeology, and Human Behavioral Ecology; References; Index

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture

0-520-24647-0

978-0-520-24647-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

GN799.A4

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