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During the four-million-year history of mankind on this planet, humans have been hunters and gatherers, dependent for food on wild plants and animals. About 10,000 years ago, the most remarkable phenomenon in human prehistory was set in motion. Around the world, over a period of 5000 years, hunters became farmers. The implications of this revolution in human activity and social organization reverberate to the present day. In case studies ranging from the Far East to the American Southwest, the authors of Last Hunters-First Farmers 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 authors emphasize the importance of the resource-rich areas in which agriculture began, the complex social organizations already in place, the role of sedentism, and the advent of economic intensification and competition.
During the four-million-year history of mankind on this planet, humans have been hunters and gatherers, dependent for food on wild plants and animals. About 10,000 years ago, the most remarkable phenomenon in human prehistory was set in motion. Around the world, over a period of 5000 years, hunters became farmers. The implications of this revolution in human activity and social organization reverberate to the present day. In case studies ranging from the Far East to the American Southwest, the authors of Last Hunters-First Farmers 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 authors emphasize the importance of the resource-rich areas in which agriculture began, the complex social organizations already in place, the role of sedentism, and the advent of economic intensification and competition.
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There are a handful of major events in our human prehistory that drive much of archaeological research. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
floodplain weed theory, lake core data, subsistence alliances, initial plant domestication, floodplain weeds, incidental domestication, specialized domestication, protoagricultural practices, procurement ranges, initial domestication, agricultural domestication, cool temperate environments, socioeconomic competition, hilly flanks, secondary staples, seed shedding, coevolutionary model, early domesticates, socioeconomic entities, competitive feasts, deliberate planting, size diminution, incipient cultivation, plant exploitation, affluent foragers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Near East, North America, Great Basin, American Southwest, Colorado Plateau, New World, Guild Naquitz, Ganj Dareh, Levantine Corridor, Northwest Coast, Younger Dryas, United States, Coxcatlán Cave, Funnel Beaker, South America, Abu Hureyra, Zawi Chemi, Real Alto, Todsen Cave, Upper Paleolithic, Ain Ghazal, Ain Mallaha, Bat Cave, Fertile Crescent, Mediterranean Sea New!
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There are a handful of major events in our human prehistory that drive much of archaeological research. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
floodplain weed theory, lake core data, subsistence alliances, initial plant domestication, floodplain weeds, incidental domestication, specialized domestication, protoagricultural practices, procurement ranges, initial domestication, agricultural domestication, cool temperate environments, socioeconomic competition, hilly flanks, secondary staples, seed shedding, coevolutionary model, early domesticates, socioeconomic entities, competitive feasts, deliberate planting, size diminution, incipient cultivation, plant exploitation, affluent foragers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Near East, North America, Great Basin, American Southwest, Colorado Plateau, New World, Guild Naquitz, Ganj Dareh, Levantine Corridor, Northwest Coast, Younger Dryas, United States, Coxcatlán Cave, Funnel Beaker, South America, Abu Hureyra, Zawi Chemi, Real Alto, Todsen Cave, Upper Paleolithic, Ain Ghazal, Ain Mallaha, Bat Cave, Fertile Crescent, Mediterranean Sea New!
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- Physical Anthropology and Archaeology by Conrad Phillip Kottak on page 279, and Back Matter
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