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| Material Type: | Conference publication |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
T Douglas Price; Anne Birgitte Gebauer; School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.) |
| ISBN: | 093345290X 9780933452909 0933452918 9780933452916 |
| OCLC Number: | 32590317 |
| Notes: | Papers from a seminar held June 1992 at the School of American Research. |
| Description: | xiv, 354 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | New perspectives on the transition to agriculture / T. Douglas Price and Anne Birgitte Gebauer -- Explaining the transition to agriculture / Patty Jo Wilson -- The origins of agriculture in the Near East / Ofer Bar-Yosef and Richard H. Meadow -- The spread of farming into Europe north of the Alps / T. Douglas Price, Anne Birgitte Gebauer, and Lawrence H. Keeley -- The transition to rice cultivation in Southeast Asia / Charles Higham -- Domestication and agriculture in the New World tropics / Deborah M. Pearsall -- Seed plant domestication in Eastern North America / Bruce D. Smith -- Archaic foraging and the beginning of food production in the American Southwest / W.H. Wills -- Protoagricultural practices among hunter-gatherers : a cross-cultural survey / Lawrence H. Keeley -- A new overview of domestication / Brian Hayden |
| Series Title: | School of American Research advanced seminar series. |
| Responsibility: | edited by T. Douglas Price and Anne Birgitte Gebauer. |
Abstract:
The case studies presented here, ranging from the Far East to the American Southwest, provide a global perspective on contemporary research into the origins of agriculture. Downplaying more traditional explanations of the turn to agriculture, such as the influence of marginal environments and population pressures, the contributors to this volume emphasize instead the importance of the resource-rich areas in which agriculture began, the complex social organizations already in place, the role of sedentism, and, in some locales, the advent of economic intensification and competition. This volume resulted from an advanced seminar held at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Contributors include Ofer Bar-Yosef, Anne Birgitte Gebauer, Charles Higham, Lawrence H. Keeley, Richard H. Meadow, Deborah M. Pearsall, T. Douglas Price, Bruce D. Smith, Patty Jo Watson, and W. H. Wills.
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