From Foraging to Agriculture : The Levant at the End of the Ice Age / Donald O. Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, Donald O., author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture, Prehistoric--Middle East.

Agriculture, Prehistoric.

Neolithic period--Middle East.

Neolithic period.

Paleoclimatology--Middle East.

Paleoclimatology.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 77 illus.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1989]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 agriculture and introduces an alternative model that links the major adaptive shifts to changes in climate, changes in the distribution of resources, and a reduction in human adaptive flexibility.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)

ISBN:

1-5128-1682-5

OCLC:

1024046394