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
Table of Contents:
  • 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