Last Hunters, First Farmers New Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture

Name: Last Hunters, First Farmers New Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture
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ISBN: 9780933452916

ISBN-10: 0933452918

ISBN-13: 9780933452916

Edition: 1995

Authors: T. Douglas Price, Anne Birgitte Gebauer

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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…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press/SAR Press
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 6.04" wide x 8.98" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.144

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Preface
New Perspectives on the Transition to Agriculture	p. 3
Explaining the Transition to Agriculture	p. 21
The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East	p. 39
The Spread of Farming into Europe North of the Alps	p. 95
The Transition to Rice Cultivation in Southeast Asia	p. 127
Domestication and Agriculture in the New World Tropics	p. 157
Seed Plant Domestication in Eastern North America	p. 193
Archaic Foraging and the Beginning of Food Production in the American Southwest	p. 215
Protoagricultural Practices among Hunter-Gatherers: A Cross-Cultural Survey	p. 243
A New Overview Of Domestication	p. 273
References	p. 301
Index	p. 347
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