Origins of Agriculture / / ed. by Charles A. Reed.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: BEADLE, GEORGE W.,; BRONSON, BENNET,; CALDWELL, JOSEPH R.,; CARR, CHRISTOPHER,; CARTER, GEORGE F.,; COHEN, MARK N.,; GORMAN, CHESTER,; HARLAN, JACK R.,; HARRIS, DAVID R.,; HASSAN, FEKRI A.,; HEISER, CHARLES B. JR.,; HERRE, WOLF,; HIGHAM, CHARLES F. W.,; HO, PING-TI,; KABAKER, ADINA,; KRAYBILL, NANCY,; LATHRAP, DONALD W.,; MacNEISH, RICHARD S.,; PICKERSGILL, BARBARA,; REDMAN, CHARLES L.,; REED, CHARLES A.,; RÖHRS, MANFRED,; WAGNER, PHILIP L.,; WING, ELIZABETH S.,; WRIGHT, HERBERT E. JR.,; YARNELL, RICHARD A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Reed, Charles A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1013 p.) :; Figs. Maps.Tabs.
• Other title: I-VI --; General Editor's Preface --; Preface --; Introduction --; SECTION ONE General Principles --; The Origins of Agriculture: Prologue --; The Earliest Farming: Demography as Cause and Consequence --; The Concept of Environmental Determinism in Cultural Evolution --; SECTION TWO Worldwide Concepts --; Cultural Evolution in the Old World and the New, Leading to the Beginnings and Spread of Agriculture --; A Hypothesis Suggesting a Single Origin of Agriculture --; Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru --; Alternative Pathways Toward Agriculture --; Zoological Considerations on the Origins of Farming and Domestication --; Environmental Change and the Origin of Agriculture in the Old and New Worlds --; SECTION THREE The Beginnings of Agriculture in the Old World --; A Priori Models and Thai Prehistory: A Reconsideration of the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southeastern Asia --; The Origins of Cereal Agriculture in the Old World --; Economic Change in Prehistoric Thailand --; The Indigenous Origins of Chinese Agriculture --; Pre-Agricultural Tools for the Preparation of Foods in the Old World --; Man, Domestication, and Culture in Southwestern Asia --; A Model for the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East --; Changing Economy in Ancient India --; The Dynamics of Agricultural Origins in Palestine: A Theoretical Model --; SECTION FOUR The Beginnings of Agriculture in the New World --; The Origin of Zea mays --; Why Didn't the American Indians Domesticate Sheep? --; The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World --; Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd: Spinden Revisited, or a Unitary Model for the Emergence of Agriculture in the New World --; The Beginning of Agriculture in Central Peru --; Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics --; Animal Domestication in the Anaes --; Native Plant Husbandry North of Mexico --; SECTION FIVE Conclusions --; Origins of Agriculture: Discussion and Some Conclusions --; SECTION SIX Appendix --; A Radiocarbon Chronology Relevant to the Origins of Agriculture --; Biographical Notes --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110813487; 9783110637922
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110813487
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Charles A. Reed.