Graeme Barker ( Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory

Why Did Foragers Become Farmers?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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, integrating an array of information from archaeology and other disciplines including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 896g
• ISBN-13: 9780199559954
• ISBN-10: 0199559953
• Artikelnr.: 25045032

Autorenporträt

Graeme Barker is Disney Professor of Archaeology, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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?