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Mixed harvest : stories from the human past / Rob Swigart.
Penn Museum Library GN799.A4 S95 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swigart, Rob, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Origin.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture, Prehistoric.
- Human settlements.
- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 222 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- "After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Before the Sedentary Divide, humans followed their food; afterward, everything the human diet had abandoned wild foods by domesticating, and irrevocably changing, plants and animals, staying in one place and keeping them close. Agriculture was so successful that religious and social belief systems evolved to enforce social inequality, exploitation of resources, constrained gender relations, and increasingly devastating conflict"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Shelter
- Prelude: The Pit of Bones
- Bringer
- The Horse Hunters
- Strife
- Judgment
- Drummer
- In Darkness
- Boy and Leaf
- The Snail Creek Shaman
- Raising Stone
- Feasting
- Waters Bitter and Sweet
- II. House
- Frozen Tears
- Tracks
- The Journey
- Mud People
- Motherbaby
- The Beast Without
- The Beast Within
- Of Pots and Plans
- III. Home
- An Introduction to Origins
- The Need for Walls
- The House of Heaven
- Scribe
- New Year
- Borders
- Descendants
- Empire's Poet
- Lamentation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Swigart, Rob, Mixed harvest
- ISBN:
- 9781789206111
- 1789206111
- 9781789206203
- 1789206200
- OCLC:
- 1110065404
- Publisher Number:
- 99988377015
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