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The Origins And Spread Of Agriculture And Pastoralism In Eurasia - Crops, Fields, Flocks And Herds (Paperback)
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The Origins And Spread Of Agriculture And Pastoralism In Eurasia - Crops, Fields, Flocks And Herds (Paperback)
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As the first book to examine the origins and spread of agriculture
and pastoralism in Europe and Asia as a whole, this major
contribution should be essential reading for archaeologists,
anthropologists, biologists and geographers. Adopting a novel
approach to the subject, the authors examine it first in terms of
seven different disciplinary perspectives: social, ecological,
genetic, linguistic, biomolecular, epidemiological and
geogrpahical. Then, 20 case studies are presented, which are based
primarily on archaeological and biological evidence and which
relate to three major regions: Southwest Asia, Europe and Central
Asia to the Pacific. The book concludes with an overview of Eurasia
as a whole.; The transition from hunting and gathering to
agriculture had revolutionary consequences for human society. It
led to the emergence of urban civilizations and ultimately to
humanity's almost complete dependence on relatively few
domesticated animals and plants. The subject has been much studied,
but the results have tended to be interpreted largely in terms of
local cultural sequences, with insufficient comparison made with
evidence from other areas. In contrast, this book provides a
continental- scale framework, with its scope extended to
pastoralism because in Eurasia both the raising of livestock and
the cultivation of crops were integral components of the
agricultural "revolution" from its inception some 10,000 years
ago.; Comprehensive and authoritative, "The Origins and Spread of
Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia" should appeal strongly to
the wide readership of students and specialists concerned with the
prehistoric antecedents of modern civilization.
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