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.

Table of Contents

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