From foraging to agriculture : the Levant at the end of the Ice Age /

About 10,000 years ago, humans abandoned three or four million yeas of successful foraging in favor of agriculture--and human society was fundamentally changed. In this book Donald Henry traces the path from simple foraging to agriculture. He challenges several contemporary theories on the origin of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henry, Donald O.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1989.
Temas:
Neolithic period > Middle East.
Agriculture, Prehistoric > Middle East.
Paleoclimatology > Middle East.
Néolithique > Moyen-Orient.
Agriculture préhistorique > Moyen-Orient.
Paléoclimatologie > Moyen-Orient.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Agriculture, Prehistoric.
Antiquities.
Neolithic period.
Paleoclimatology.
Middle East > Antiquities.
Moyen-Orient > Antiquités.
Middle East.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Changes: Causes and Consequences
  • 2 An Alternative Explanation: A Composite Model
  • 3. Present and Past Environments
  • 4. Archaeological Complexes of the Levant: An Overview
  • 5. The Mushabian Complex
  • 6. The Geometric Kebaran Complex
  • 7. The Natufian Complex
  • 8. Considering a Universal Cause for Agriculture
  • References Cited
  • Appendix A: Mushabian Complex Assemblages
  • Appendix B: Geometric Kebaran Complex Assemblages
  • Appendix C: Natufian Complex Assemblages
  • Index

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