The emergence of agriculture : global views

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Denham, Tim (Author), White, Peter , 1937 October 8- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge , 2007
Series:One world archaeology readers
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Online Access:Table of contents only

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245 0 4 |a The emergence of agriculture :   |b global views   |c [edited by] Tim Denham and Peter White 
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300 |a xii, 276 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 24 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Early agriculture: recent conceptual and methodological developments -- 2. An evolutionary continuum of people-plant interaction -- 3. Darwinism and its role in the explanation of domestication -- 4. Non-affluent foragers: resource availability, seasonal shortages, and the emergence of agriculture in Panamanian tropical forests -- 5. The impact of maize on subsistence systems in South America: an example from the Jama River valley, coastal Ecuador -- 6. Cultural implications of crop introductions in Andean prehistory -- 7. Early plant cultivation in the Eastern Woodlands of North America -- 8. The dispersal of domesticated plants into north-eastern Japan -- 9. The origins and development of New Guinea agriculture -- 10. Subsistence changes in India and Pakistan: the Neolithic and Chalcolithic from the point of view of plant use today -- 11. Domestication of the Southwest Asian Neolithic crop assemblage of cereals, pulses, and flax: the evidence from the living plants -- 12. Agrarian change and the beginning of cultivation in the Near East: evidence from wild progenitors, experimental cultivation and archaeobotanical data -- 13. The beginnings of food production in southwestern Kenya 
650 0 |a Agriculture, Prehistoric 
650 0 |a Agriculture   |x Origin 
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