Origins of Agriculture
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Origins of Agriculture

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Origins of Agriculture

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9789027979193
eBook ISBN
9783110813487
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. General Editor’s Preface
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. SECTION ONE: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
  5. The Origins of Agriculture: Prologue
  6. The Earliest Farming: Demography as Cause and Consequence
  7. The Concept of Environmental Determinism in Cultural Evolution
  8. SECTION TWO: WORLDWIDE CONCEPTS
  9. Cultural Evolution in the Old World and the New, Leading to the Beginnings and Spread of Agriculture
  10. A Hypothesis Suggesting a Single Origin of Agriculture
  11. Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru
  12. Alternative Pathways Toward Agriculture
  13. Zoological Considerations on the Origins of Farming and Domestication
  14. Environmental Change and the Origin of Agriculture in the Old and New Worlds
  15. SECTION THREE: THE BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE IN THE OLD WORLD
  16. A Priori Models and Thai Prehistory: A Reconsideration of the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southeastern Asia
  17. The Origins of Cereal Agriculture in the Old World
  18. Economic Change in Prehistoric Thailand
  19. The Indigenous Origins of Chinese Agriculture
  20. Pre-Agricultural Tools for the Preparation of Foods in the Old World
  21. Man, Domestication, and Culture in Southwestern Asia
  22. A Model for the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East
  23. Changing Economy in Ancient India
  24. The Dynamics of Agricultural Origins in Palestine: A Theoretical Model
  25. Abstract: The Cultural Processes Leading to the Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient Near East
  26. SECTION FOUR: THE BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE IN THE NEW WORLD
  27. The Origins of Zea mays
  28. Why Didn’t the American Indians Domesticate Sheep?
  29. The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World
  30. Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd: Spinden Revisited, or a Unitary Model for the Emergence of Agriculture in the New World
  31. The Beginning of Agriculture in Central Peru
  32. Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics
  33. Animal Domestication in the Andes
  34. Native Plant Husbandry North of Mexico
  35. SECTION FIVE: CONCLUSIONS
  36. Origins of Agriculture: Discussion and Some Conclusions
  37. SECTION SIX: APPENDIX
  38. A Radiocarbon Chronology Relevant to the Origins of Agriculture
  39. Biographical Notes
  40. Index of Names
  41. Index of Subjects