The origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in Eurasia /

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مؤلفون آخرون: Harris, David R.

التنسيق: كتاب

اللغة: English

منشور في: London : UCL Press, 1996.

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رقم الطلب: GN799 .A4 O73 1996

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245 0 4 |a The origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in Eurasia /   |c edited by David R. Harris. 
264 1 |a London :   |b UCL Press,   |c 1996. 
300 |a xiv, 594 pages :   |b illustrations, maps ;   |c 24 cm. 
500 |a OCLC 35153820 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a •Introduction •Part 1. Thematic perspectives: growing plants and raising animals - an anthropological perspective on domestication •Ecology, evolutionary theory and agricultural origins •The spread of agriculture and nomadic pastoralism - insights from genetics, linguistics and archaeology •Language families and the spread of farming •Tracking early crops and early farmers - the potential of biomolecular archaeology •The impact of diseases upon the emergence and spread of agriculture •Plate tectonics and imaginary prehistories - structure and contingency in agricultural origins •Part 2. Southwest Asia: the mode of domestication of the founder crops of Southwest Asian agriculture •Climate-induced changes in the plant resources of hunter-gatherers of the northern Fertile Crescent - preludes to cereal cultivation? •The emergence of cultivation and pastoralism in the "marginal" zone of the southern Levant •Animal domestication - accident or intention? •The beginning of caprine domestication in Southwest Asia •The context of caprine domestication in the Zagros region •The one-humped camel in Asia - origin, utilization and mechanisms of dispersal •Part 3. Europe: the development of agriculture in Greece - when, how, who and what? •The cultural context of the first use of domesticates in continental central and northwest Europe •Agricultural frontiers and the transition to farming in the circum-Baltic area •The first farmers of southern Scandinavia •Arboriculture in Southwest Europe - dehesas as managed woodlands •Part 4. Central Asia to the Pacific: the beginnings of agriculture in western Central Asia •The origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in northwestern South Asia •New evidence for early rice cultivation in South, Southeast and East Asia •Jomon and Yayoi - the transition to agriculture in Japanese prehistory •The origins and spread of agriculture in the Indo-Pacific region - gradualism and diffusion or revolution and colonization? •People- plant interactions in the New Guinea highlands - agricultural hearthland or horticultural backwater? •Early agriculture and what went before in island Melanesia - continuity or intrusion? •The origins of tropical vegeculture - zingiberacene, araceae and dioscoreaceae in Southeast Asia •Part 5. Conclusion: the origins and spread of agricutlure and pastoralism in Eurasia - an overview 
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