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The agricultural revolution in prehistory :

0191557668

9780191557668

0199281092

9780199281091

9780199559954

The agricultural revolution in prehistory :

[Book]

why did foragers become farmers? /

Graeme Barker.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

2006.

1 online resource (xiv, 598 pages) :

illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-526) and index.

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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"The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species - the change from foraging (hunting and gathering) to farming. Ten thousand years ago there were few if any communities whom we can properly call farmers; five thousand years later, large numbers of the world's population were farmers, using a wide variety of crops and animals in different combinations in different regions. The possible reasons for the transition have long been one of the most controversial topics in archaeology, and continue to be so." "Graeme Barker integrates a massive array of information from archaeology (including archaeological approaches right across the humanities and science spectrum), together with many other disciplines including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Against current orthodoxy, he develops a strong case for the parallel development of geographically specific agricultural systems in many areas of the world, transformations in the lifeways of forager societies that in some cases have origins reaching much further back in time that commonly suggested. Barker argues that the change from foraging to farming was as much about foragers developing new ways of thinking about their relationship to the world they inhabited as about new ways of obtaining food. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory is clearly written, without jargon, and includes a large number of helpful line drawings and photographs as well as a comprehensive bibliography. It will be essential reading for all students of archaeology, as well as specialists in the various fields, and it is also intended for the interested general reader."--Jacket.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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Agricultural revolution in prehistory.

Agriculture-- Origin.

Agriculture, Prehistoric.

Plant remains (Archaeology)

Plants, Cultivated-- Origin.

Agriculture-- Origines.

Agriculture préhistorique.

Plantes cultivées-- Origines.

Restes de plantes (Archéologie)

Agriculture-- Origin.

Agriculture, Prehistoric.

Plant remains (Archaeology)

Plants, Cultivated-- Origin.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Agriculture-- Agronomy-- Crop Science.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Agriculture-- Agronomy-- General.

TEC-- 003030

TEC-- 003080

Barker, Graeme.

20200822093015.0

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