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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barker, Graeme.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture, Prehistoric.

Agriculture--Origin.

Agriculture.

Plants, Cultivated--Origin.

Plants, Cultivated.

Plant remains (Archaeology).

Hunting and gathering societies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (615 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Addressing one of the most debated revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming, this title takes a global view, and integrates an array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology.

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; 1. Approaches to the Origins of Agriculture; 2. Understanding Foragers; 3. Identifying Foragers and Farmers; 4. The 'Hearth of Domestication'? Transitions to Farming in South-West Asia; 5. Central and South Asia: the Wheat/Rice Frontier; 6. Rice and Forest Farming in East and South-East Asia; 7. Weed, Tuber, and Maize Farming in the Americas; 8. Africa: Afro-Asiatic Pastoralists and Bantu Farmers?; 9. Transitions to Farming in Europe: Ex Oriente Lux?; 10. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers?

ReferencesIndex

Notes:

Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-526) and index.

ISBN:

9786612235009

9780191917653

0191917656

9781282235007

1282235001

9780191557668

0191557668

OCLC:

437114965