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Europe's first farmers / edited by T. Douglas Price.
Penn Museum Library GN776.2.A1 E87 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neolithic period--Europe.
- Neolithic period.
- Europe.
- Agriculture--Origin.
- Agriculture.
- Europe--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Domestication--Europe.
- Agriculture, Prehistoric--Europe.
- Local Subjects:
- Domestication--Europe.
- Neolithic period--Europe.
- Agriculture, Prehistoric--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Plants and animals originally domesticated in the Near East arrived in Europe between 7000 and 4000 BC. Was the new technology introduced by migrants, or was it an "inside job"? How were the new species adapted to European conditions? What were the immediate and long-term consequences of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming? These central questions in the prehistory of Europe are discussed here by leading specialists, drawing on the latest scholarship in fields as diverse as genetics and IndoEuropean linguistics.
- Contents:
- 1 Europe's first farmers: an introduction / T. Douglas Price 1
- 2 Southeastern Europe in the transition to agriculture in Europe: bridge, buffer, or mosaic / Ruth Tringham 19
- 3 Transition to agriculture in eastern Europe / Marek Zvelebil, Malcolm Lillie 57
- 4 Cardial pottery and the agricultural transition in Mediterranean Europe / William K. Barnett 93
- 5 Mesolithic and Neolithic interaction in southern France and northern Italy: new data and current hypotheses / Didier Binder 117
- 6 From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in the Iberian peninsula / Joao Zilhao 144
- 7 The origins of agriculture in south-central Europe / Michael Jochim 183
- 8 How agriculture came to north-central Europe / Peter Bogucki 197
- 9 Getting back to basics: transitions to farming in Ireland and Britain / Peter Woodman 219
- 10 The introduction of farming in northern Europe / T. Douglas Price 260
- 11 Lessons in the transition to agriculture / T. Douglas Price 301.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-376) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521662036
- 0521665728
- OCLC:
- 41256142
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