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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Graeme Barker is Disney Professor of Archaeology, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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?

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199559954
ISBN-10: 0199559953
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Barker, Graeme
Hersteller: Oxford University Press (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 233 x 156 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Graeme Barker
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2009
Gewicht: 0,91 kg
Artikel-ID: 120665385

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