Index of Subjects

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. General Editor's Preface VII
3. Preface XI
4. Introduction 1
5. SECTION ONE General Principles
6. The Origins of Agriculture: Prologue 9
7. The Earliest Farming: Demography as Cause and Consequence 23
8. The Concept of Environmental Determinism in Cultural Evolution 49
9. SECTION TWO Worldwide Concepts
10. Cultural Evolution in the Old World and the New, Leading to the Beginnings and Spread of Agriculture 77
11. A Hypothesis Suggesting a Single Origin of Agriculture 89
12. Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru 135
13. Alternative Pathways Toward Agriculture 179
14. Zoological Considerations on the Origins of Farming and Domestication 245
15. Environmental Change and the Origin of Agriculture in the Old and New Worlds 281
16. SECTION THREE The Beginnings of Agriculture in the Old World
17. A Priori Models and Thai Prehistory: A Reconsideration of the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southeastern Asia 321
18. The Origins of Cereal Agriculture in the Old World 357
19. Economic Change in Prehistoric Thailand 385
20. The Indigenous Origins of Chinese Agriculture 413
21. Pre-Agricultural Tools for the Preparation of Foods in the Old World 485
22. Man, Domestication, and Culture in Southwestern Asia 523
23. A Model for the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East 543
24. Changing Economy in Ancient India 569
25. The Dynamics of Agricultural Origins in Palestine: A Theoretical Model 589
26. SECTION FOUR The Beginnings of Agriculture in the New World
27. The Origin of Zea mays 615
28. Why Didn't the American Indians Domesticate Sheep? 637
29. The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World 693
30. Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd: Spinden Revisited, or a Unitary Model for the Emergence of Agriculture in the New World 713
31. The Beginning of Agriculture in Central Peru 753
32. Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics 803
33. Animal Domestication in the Anaes 837
34. Native Plant Husbandry North of Mexico 861
35. SECTION FIVE Conclusions
36. Origins of Agriculture: Discussion and Some Conclusions 879
37. SECTION SIX Appendix
38. A Radiocarbon Chronology Relevant to the Origins of Agriculture 957
39. Biographical Notes 981
40. Index of Names 995
41. Index of Subjects 1007