Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory Why Did Foragers Become Farmers?

Name: Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory Why Did Foragers Become Farmers?
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ISBN: 9780199559954

ISBN-10: 0199559953

ISBN-13: 9780199559954

Edition: 2009

Authors: Graeme Barker

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The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Against current orthodoxy, Barker develops a strong case for the development of agricultural systems in many areas as transformations in the life-ways of the indigenous forager societies, and argues that these were as much changes in social norms and ideologies as in ways of obtaining food. With a…

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List price: $78.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/25/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 616
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 2.706
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Abbreviations



Approaches to the Origins of Agriculture



Understanding Foragers



Identifying Foragers and Farmers



The 'Hearth of Domestication'? Transitions to Farming in South-West Asia



Central and South Asia: the Wheat/Rice Frontier



Rice and Forest Farming in East and South-East Asia



Weed, Tuber, and Maize Farming in the Americas



Africa: Afro-Asiatic Pastoralists and Bantu Farmers?



Transitions to Farming in Europe: Ex Oriente Lux?



The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers?


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Index