The Origins And Spread Of Agriculture And Pastoralism In Eurasia: Crops, Fields, Flocks And Herds

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ISBN: 9781857285383 | 1857285387
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Copyright: 3/28/1996

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A review and analysis of a topic central to understanding humanity's social and economic development, this text draws together contributions from around the world.

Introduction
Thematic perspectives: growing plants and raising animals - an anthropological perspective on domestication
Ecology, evolutionary theory and agricultural origins
The spread of agriculture and nomadic pastoralism - insights from genetics, linguistics and archaeology
Language families and the spread of farming
Tracking early crops and early farmers - the potential of biomolecular archaeology
The impact of diseases upon the emergence and spread of agriculture
Plate tectonics and imaginary prehistories - structure and contingency in agricultural origins
Southwest Asia: the mode of domestication of the founder crops of Southwest Asian agriculture
Climate-induced changes in the plant resources of hunter-gatherers of the northern Fertile Crescent - preludes to cereal cultivation?
The emergence of cultivation and pastoralism in the "marginal" zone of the southern Levant
Animal domestication - accident or intention?
The beginning of caprine domestication in Southwest Asia
The context of caprine domestication in the Zagros region
The one-humped camel in Asia - origin, utilization and mechanisms of dispersal
Europe: the development of agriculture in Greece - when, how, who and what?
The cultural context of the first use of domesticates in continental central and northwest Europe
Agricultural frontiers and the transition to farming in the circum-Baltic area
The first farmers of southern Scandinavia
Arboriculture in Southwest Europe - dehesas as managed woodlands
Central Asia to the Pacific: the beginnings of agriculture in western Central Asia
The origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in northwestern South Asia
New evidence for early rice cultivation in South, Southeast and East Asia
Jomon and Yayoi - the transition to agriculture in Japanese prehistory
The origins and spread of agriculture in the Indo-Pacific region - gradualism and diffusion or revolution and colonization?
People- plant interactions in the New Guinea highlands - agricultural hearthland or horticultural backwater?
Early agriculture and what went before in island Melanesia - continuity or intrusion?
The origins of tropical vegeculture - zingiberacene, araceae and dioscoreaceae in Southeast Asia
Conclusion: the origins and spread of agricutlure and pastoralism in Eurasia - an overview
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