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The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory. Why Did Foragers Become Farmers?.
Graeme Barker
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Paperback. This book addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, integrating an array of information from archaeology and other disciplines including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Num Pages: 616 pages, 138 in-text illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA; HDDA; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 896.
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Against current orthodoxy, Barker develops a strong case for the development of agricultural systems in many areas as transformations in the life-ways of the indigenous forager societies, and argues that these were as much changes in social norms and ideologies as in ways of ... Read more
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Against current orthodoxy, Barker develops a strong case for the development of agricultural systems in many areas as transformations in the life-ways of the indigenous forager societies, and argues that these were as much changes in social norms and ideologies as in ways of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
616
Condition
New
Number of Pages
616
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199559954
SKU
V9780199559954
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About Graeme Barker
Graeme Barker is Disney Professor of Archaeology, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
Reviews for The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory. Why Did Foragers Become Farmers?.
...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,
Brian Fagan, European Journal of Archaeology
a magisterial survey on a global scale
Peter Bogucki,