Title:
The agricultural revolution in prehistory : why did foragers become farmers? / Graeme Barker.
Author:
Barker, Graeme.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009, ©2006.
Call Number:
GN799.A4 B38 2009
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0615/2006018538.htmlPublisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2006018538-d.html
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2006018538-b.html
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0615/2006018538.html
Edition:
Pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780199559954
Physical Description:
xiv, 598 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Approaches to the origins of agriculture -- Understanding foragers -- Identifying foragers and farmers -- The 'hearth of domestication'? Transitions to farming in South-West Asia -- Central and South Asia: the wheat/rice frontier -- Rice and forest farming in East and South-East Asia -- Weed, tuber, and maize farming in the Americas -- Africa: Afro-Asiatic pastoralists and bantu farmers? -- Transitions to farming in Europe: ex oriente lux? -- The agricultural revolution in prehistory: why did foragers become farmers?
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