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The agricultural revolution in prehistory : why did foragers become farmers? /

"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;...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barker, Graeme (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?