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Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia : An Environmental-Archaeological Study /
In Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia, archaeologist David R. Harris addresses questions of when, how, and why agriculture and settled village life began east of the Caspian Sea. The book describes and assesses evidence from archaeological investigations in Turkmenistan and adjacent part...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2011]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Physical Environment and Ecology
- 1 The Present Environment
- 2 Environmental Changes in the Pleistocene and Holocene
- 3 The Local Environment of Jeitun
- 4 The Local Environment of the Bolshoi Balkhan Sites
- Part II Prehistoric Archaeology
- 5 History of Archaeological Research
- 6 The Mesolithic and Neolithic Periods: Sites, Sequences, and Subsistence
- Part III Neolithic Crop Plants and Domestic Animals
- 7 Areas of Origin of the Crops and Domestic Animals
- Part IV Archaeological-Environmental Investigations in Turkmenistan 1989-98
- 8 Jeitun, the Sumbar and Chandyr Valleys, and the Bolshoi Balkhan Region: Excavation and Survey
- 9 Jeitun: Dating and Analysis of Excavated Materials
- 10 The Bolshoi Balkhan Sites: Analysis of Excavated Materials
- Part V Synthesis and Conclusions
- 11 Neolithic Settlement and Subsistence
- 12 The Beginnings of Agriculture in Western Central Asia
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Author Note
- Index