Hunters in Transition analyses one of the crucial events in human
cultural evolution: the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer
communities and the development of farming. Traditionally, the
advantages of settled agriculture have been assumed and the
transition to farming has been viewed in terms of the simple
dispersal of early farming communities northwards across Europe.
The contributors to this volume adopt a fresh, more subtle
approach. Farming is viewed from a hunter-gatherer perspective as
offering both advantages and disadvantages, organisational
disruption during the period of transition and far-reaching social
consequences for the existing way of life. The hunter-gatherer
economy and farming in fact shared a common objective: a guaranteed
food supply in a changing natural and social environment. Drawing
extensively on research in eastern Europe and temperate Asia, the
book argues persuasively for the essential unity of all
post-glacial. adaptations whether leading to the dispersal of
farming or the retention and elaboration of existing
hunter-gatherer strategies.
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