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Prehistoric Farming in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Prehistoric Farming in Europe

Drawing upon his own extensive knowledge of European archaeology, Graeme Barker has impressively integrated the full range of archaeological data to produce in this book a masterly account of prehistoric farming in Europe on a unique scale. He makes use of modern archaeological techniques to reconstruct the lives of prehistoric farmers in remarkable detail. Not only do we now have a vivid picture of the prehistoric farmyard, but we know what animals were kept, how they were fed and why they were bred. Evidence for crops grown and techniques of cultivation and husbandry helps recreate the prehistoric landscape. Even the social organisation that determined the use of resources, and provided the crucial stimulus for agricultural change, can be relived. Graeme Barker develops his argument through analogies with the agricultural history of classical and medieval Europe and concludes that today's industrial farmers can learn much from the successes and failures of early European farming.

Last Hunters, First Farmers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Last Hunters, First Farmers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

During virtually the entire four-million-year history of our habitation on this planet, humans have been hunters and gatherers, dependent for nourishment on the availability of wild plants and animals. Beginning about 10,000 years ago, however, the most remarkable phenomenon in the course of human prehistory was set in motion. At locations around the world, over a period of about 5,000 years, hunters became farmers. Far more than the domestication of plant and animal species was involved in this revolution, which was accompanied by massive changes in the structure and organization of the societies that adopted agriculture and by a totally new relationship with the environment. Whereas hunter...

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 615

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory

Addressing one of the most debated revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming, this title takes a global view, and integrates an array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology.

Farming Practice in British Prehistory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Farming Practice in British Prehistory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Landscaoe and crops: Wildscape to Landscape: "Endosure" in pre historie Britain; Early Agriculture in Scotland; Agricultural tools: Function and use slash and Burn in the; Temperate European neolithic; Deadstock and Livestock; Reconstructing crop Husbandry practices from charred remanins of crops; Animal Husbandry: Aspects of cattle husbandry; Licestock products: Skins and fleeces; Early manuring techniques.

Prehistory of Agriculture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Prehistory of Agriculture

The twenty-eight contributors to this book show how experimental and ethnographic approaches are being used to shed new light on the process of domestication, and harvesting techniques, tools and technology in the period just before and just after the appearance of agriculture. The book takes an explicitly comparative approach, with chapters on SW Asia, Europe, Australia and Africa.

First Farmers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

First Farmers

First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan

Prehistoric Agriculture in Eastern Middle Sweden
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

Prehistoric Agriculture in Eastern Middle Sweden

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First Farmers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

First Farmers

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second edition of First Farmers examines the origins of food production across the world and documents the expansions of agricultural populations from source regions during the past 12,000 years. It commences with the archaeological records from the multiple homelands of agriculture, and extends into discussions that draw on linguistic and genomic information about the human past, featuring new findings from the last ten years of research. Through twelve chapters, the text examines the latest evidence and leading the...

Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory

The first book on the origin of clothes shows why climate change was crucial - for the origin of agriculture too.

The Origins of Agriculture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

The Origins of Agriculture

The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and Jack R. Harlan.