Title:
The first farmers of Europe : an evolutionary perspective / Stephen Shennan.
Author:
Shennan, Stephen, author.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
©2018
Call Number:
GN803 .S47 2018
Abstract:
"Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from human genomes. In this book, Stephen Shennan presents the latest research on the spread of farming by archaeologists, geneticists and other archaeological scientists. He shows that it resulted from a population expansion from present-day Turkey. Using ideas from the disciplines of human behavioural ecology and cultural evolution, he explains how this process took place." -- Publisher's description
ISBN:
9781108422925
9781108435215
Series:
Cambridge world archaeology
Cambridge world archaeology.
Physical Description:
xviii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: population, resources and life histories -- The origins of agriculture in South-West Asia -- The first westward expansion of farming -- The spread of farming into Central Europe -- Maritime expansion in the central and west Mediterranean -- Continental temperate Europe 7000-5500 BP: internal expansion and adaption -- First farmers in southern Scandinavia -- The farming colonisation of Britain and Ireland.
Personal Author:
