The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers?
Author:   Graeme Barker (Disney Professor of Archaeology, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   616
Publication Date:   22 January 2009
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Author:   Graeme Barker (Disney Professor of Archaeology, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.916kg
ISBN:  

9780199559954


ISBN 10:   0199559953
Pages:   616
Publication Date:   22 January 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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?

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...a masterpiece of interdisciplinary synthesis, which encompasses all parts of the world, not just well-researched areas...He puts today's all-embracing, and often popular, theories in a much more sophisticated context. This important and erudite work will surely become a classic... Brian Fagan, European Journal of Archaeology a magisterial survey on a global scale Peter Bogucki,


...a masterpiece of interdisciplinary synthesis, which encompasses all parts of the world, not just well-researched areas...He puts today's all-embracing, and often popular, theories in a much more sophisticated context. This important and erudite work will surely become a classic... Brian Fagan, European Journal of Archaeology a magisterial survey on a global scale Peter Bogucki,


a magisterial survey on a global scale * Peter Bogucki, * ...a masterpiece of interdisciplinary synthesis, which encompasses all parts of the world, not just well-researched areas...He puts today's all-embracing, and often popular, theories in a much more sophisticated context. This important and erudite work will surely become a classic... * Brian Fagan, European Journal of Archaeology *


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Graeme Barker is Disney Professor of Archaeology, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

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