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Author: Graeme Barker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 0199559953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddressing 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.
Author: Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Graeme Barker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-10-05
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 0199281092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from foraging (hunting and gathering) to farming. Ten thousand years ago there were few if any communities whom we can properly call farmers; five thousand years later, large numbers of the world's population were farmers, using a wide variety of crops and animals in different combinations in different regions. The possible reasons for the transition have long been one of the most controversial topics in archaeology, and continue to be so. The author integrates a massive array of information from archaeology (including archaeological approaches right across the humanities and science spectrum), together with many other disciplines including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Against current orthodoxy, he develops a strong case for the parallel development of geographically specific agricultural systems in many areas of the world, transformations in the lifeways of forager societies that in some cases have origins reaching much further back in time that commonly suggested. He argues that the change from foraging to farming was as much about foragers developing new ways of thinking about their relationship to the world they inhabited as about new ways of obtaining food.
Author: Graeme Barker
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-10-05
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 0191557668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Against current orthodoxy, Barker develops a strong case for the development of agricultural systems in many areas as transformations in the life-ways of the indigenous forager societies, and argues that these were as much changes in social norms and ideologies as in ways of obtaining food. With a large number of helpful line drawings and photographs as well as a comprehensive bibliography, this authoritative study will appeal to a wide general readership as well as to specialists in a variety of fields.
Author: Jane Peterson
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780759102576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescription, based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of the change in the gendered division of labor during the Neolithic agricultural revolution.
Author: Patricia C. Anderson
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 1999-07-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1938770870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twenty-eight contributors to this book show how experimental and ethnographic approaches are being used to shed new light on the process of domestication, and harvesting techniques, tools and technology in the period just before and just after the appearance of agriculture. The book takes an explicitly comparative approach, with chapters on SW Asia, Europe, Australia and Africa.
Author: Ian Gilligan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1108470084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book on the origin of clothes shows why climate change was crucial - for the origin of agriculture too.
Author: Theron Douglas Price
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring virtually the entire four-million-year history of our habitation on this planet, humans have been hunters and gatherers, dependent for nourishment on the availability of wild plants and animals. Beginning about 10,000 years ago, however, the most remarkable phenomenon in the course of human prehistory was set in motion. At locations around the world, over a period of about 5,000 years, hunters became farmers. Far more than the domestication of plant and animal species was involved in this revolution, which was accompanied by massive changes in the structure and organization of the societies that adopted agriculture and by a totally new relationship with the environment. Whereas hunter-gatherers live off the land in an extensive fashion, exploiting a diversity of resources over a broad area, farmers utilize the landscape intensively. The implications of these changes in human activity and social organization reverberate down to the present day.
Author: David Hollander
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 1118970942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book-length overview of agricultural development in the ancient world A Companion to Ancient Agriculture is an authoritative overview of the history and development of agriculture in the ancient world. Focusing primarily on the Near East and Mediterranean regions, this unique text explores the cultivation of the soil and rearing of animals through centuries of human civilization—from the Neolithic beginnings of agriculture to Late Antiquity. Chapters written by the leading scholars in their fields present a multidisciplinary examination of the agricultural methods and influences that have enabled humans to survive and prosper. Consisting of thirty-one chapters, the Companion presents essays on a range of topics that include economic-political, anthropological, zooarchaeological, ethnobotanical, and archaeobotanical investigation of ancient agriculture. Chronologically-organized chapters offer in-depth discussions of agriculture in Bronze Age Egypt and Mesopotamia, Hellenistic Greece and Imperial Rome, Iran and Central Asia, and other regions. Sections on comparative agricultural history discuss agriculture in the Indian subcontinent and prehistoric China while an insightful concluding section helps readers understand ancient agriculture from a modern perspective. Fills the need for a full-length biophysical and social overview of ancient agriculture Provides clear accounts of the current state of research written by experts in their respective areas Places ancient Mediterranean agriculture in conversation with contemporary practice in Eastern and Southern Asia Includes coverage of analysis of stable isotopes in ancient agricultural cultivation Offers plentiful illustrations, references, case studies, and further reading suggestions A Companion to Ancient Agriculture is a much-needed resource for advanced students, instructors, scholars, and researchers in fields such as agricultural history, ancient economics, and in broader disciplines including classics, archaeology, and ancient history.
Author: Jacques Cauvin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-07-27
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521651356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of social and economic transformations in the Near East during Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition, first published in 2000.
Author: Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 575
ISBN-13: 1108470971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.
