ISBN:
9781108640909
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 270 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als ʻAbo, Shaḥal Plant domestication and the origins of agriculture in the Ancient Near East
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Alter Orient
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Neolithische Revolution
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Landwirtschaft
Abstract:
Rapid and knowledge-based agricultural origins and plant domestication in the Neolithic Near East gave rise to Western civilizations.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 What Is the Agricultural Revolution? -- Hunter-Gatherers and Food-Producing Farmers -- Nature of occupation sites and mobility patterns. -- Social structure and organization. -- Economy. -- Demography. -- Worldviews. -- Key Points and Beyond -- 2 From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers in the Near East: Archaeological Background -- The Epipaleolithic Period -- The Neolithic Period -- Key Points and Beyond -- 3 Models That Describe and Explain the Agricultural Revolution, Including Plant Domestication -- Obtaining, Organizing, Employing and Transmitting Knowledge among Hunter-Gatherers -- Models That Describe and Explain the Onset of Agriculture -- Childe's Oasis Theory -- The Nuclear Zone Theory -- The Marginal Zone Theory -- The Dump-Heap Hypothesis -- The Niche-Construction Model (or the Protracted Symbiosis and Domestication Model) -- The Competitive Feasting Theory -- The Ideological Model of Jacques Cauvin -- On the Pace of Plant Domestication and the Awareness of the Domesticators -- Key Points and Beyond -- 4 The Plant Formations of the Fertile Crescent and the Wild Progenitors of the Domesticated Founder Crops -- Key Points and Beyond -- 5 The Difference between Wild and Domesticated Plants -- Key Points and Beyond -- 6 Traditional versus Modern Agriculture - Stability vs Maximization -- Key Points and Beyond -- 7 The Differences between Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution under Traditional and Modern Farming Systems -- Key Points and Beyond -- 8 The Differences between Cereal and Legume Crops in the Near East -- Comments on Broad (Faba) Bean, a Legume of No Known Wild Ancestry -- Flax: Neither Cereal, nor Legume -- Key Points and Beyond.
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