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First farmers : the origins of agricultural societies / Peter Bellwood.
LIBRA GN799.A4 B45 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellwood, Peter S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Origin.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture, Prehistoric.
- Plants, Cultivated--Origin.
- Plants, Cultivated.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
- Summary:
- First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world and will be of interest to all students of human variation and large-scale patterns in human history. Using data from archaeology, comparative linguistics and biological anthropology, archaeologist Peter Bellwood covers developments within the past 12,000 years in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas.First Farmers examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture, looks at relations between hunter-gatherers and farmers, and addresses issues of agricultural adoption, the origins and dispersal histories of language families, and the dispersal histories of biological populations. Bellwood offers discussion of regional agricultural origins in and dispersals out of these areas: the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes.
- Contents:
- The early farming dispersal hypothesis in perspective
- The origins and dispersals of agriculture : some operational considerations
- The beginnings of agriculture in Southwest Asia
- Tracking the spreads of farming beyond the Fertile Crescent : Europe and Asia
- Africa : an independent focus of agricultural development?
- The beginnings of agriculture in East Asia
- The spread of agriculture into Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Early agriculture in the Americas
- What do language families mean for human prehistory?
- The spread of farming : comparing the archaeology and the linguistics
- Genetics, skeletal anthropology, and the people factor
- The nature of early agricultural expansion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-349) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0631205659
- 0631205667
- OCLC:
- 54479525
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