The agricultural revolution in prehistory : why did foragers become farmers? /

Main Author: Barker, Graeme
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects:
Table of 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?