ISBN:
0-933452-91-8
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978-0-933452-91-6
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0-933452-90-X /Hb.
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978-0-933452-90-9 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 354 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
5th paperback printing
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [45]
Abstract:
During virtually the entire four-million-year history of our habitation on this planet, humans have been hunters and gatherers, dependent for nourishment on the availability of wild plants and animals. Beginning about 10,000 years ago, however, the most remarkable phenomenon in the course of human prehistory was set in motion. At locations around the world, over a period of about 5000 years, hunters became farmers. The implications of this revolution in human activity and social organization reverberate down to the present day.In case studies ranging from the Far East to the American Southwest, the authors of Last Hunters, First Farmers provide a global perspective on contemporary research into the origins of agriculture. Downplaying more traditional explanations of the turn to agriculture, such as the influence of marginal environments and population pressures, the authors emphasize instead the importance of the resource-rich areas in which agriculture began, the complex social organizations already in place, the role of sedentism, and, in some locales, the advent of economic intensification and competition. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface, T. Douglas Price and Anne Birgitte Gebauer -- 1. New Perspectives on the Transition to Agriculture, T. Douglas Price and Anne Birgitte Gebauer -- 2. Explaning the Transition to Agriculture, Patty Jo Watson -- 3. The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East, Ofer Bar-Yosef and Richard H. Meadow -- 4. The Spread of Farming into Europe North of the Alps, T. Douglas Price, Anne Birgitte Gebauer, and Lawrence H. Keeley -- 5. The Transition of Rice Cultivation in Southeast Asia, Charles Higham -- 6. Domestication and Agriculture in the New World Tropics, Deborah M. Pearsall -- 7. Seed Plant Domestication in Eastern North America, Bruce D. Smith -- 8. Archaic Foraging and the Beginning of Food Production in the American Southwest, W.H. Wills -- 9. Protoagricultural Practices among Hunter-Gathers: A Cross-Cultural Survey, Lawrence H. Keeley -- 10. A New Overview of Domestication, Brian Hayden -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 301-346"School of American Research advanced seminar The Transition to Agriculture, Santa Fe, New Mexico, [early June] 1992" (letzte Seite)Enthält 10 Beiträge
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