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Origins of Agriculture

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Published/Copyright: 1977
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World Anthropology

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    I-VI

    I
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    General Editor's Preface

    VII
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    Preface

    XI
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    Introduction

    1
    CHARLES A. REED
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  • SECTION ONE General Principles
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    The Origins of Agriculture: Prologue

    9
    CHARLES A. REED
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    The Earliest Farming: Demography as Cause and Consequence

    23
    BENNET BRONSON
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    The Concept of Environmental Determinism in Cultural Evolution

    49
    PHILIP L. WAGNER
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  • SECTION TWO Worldwide Concepts
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    Cultural Evolution in the Old World and the New, Leading to the Beginnings and Spread of Agriculture

    77
    JOSEPH R. CALDWELL
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    A Hypothesis Suggesting a Single Origin of Agriculture

    89
    GEORGE F. CARTER
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    Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru

    135
    MARK N. COHEN
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    Alternative Pathways Toward Agriculture

    179
    DAVID R. HARRIS
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    Zoological Considerations on the Origins of Farming and Domestication

    245
    WOLF HERRE and MANFRED RÖHRS
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    Environmental Change and the Origin of Agriculture in the Old and New Worlds

    281
    HERBERT E. JR. WRIGHT
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  • SECTION THREE The Beginnings of Agriculture in the Old World
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    A Priori Models and Thai Prehistory: A Reconsideration of the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southeastern Asia

    321
    CHESTER GORMAN
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    The Origins of Cereal Agriculture in the Old World

    357
    JACK R. HARLAN
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    Economic Change in Prehistoric Thailand

    385
    CHARLES F. W. HIGHAM
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    The Indigenous Origins of Chinese Agriculture

    413
    PING-TI HO
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    Pre-Agricultural Tools for the Preparation of Foods in the Old World

    485
    NANCY KRAYBILL
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    Man, Domestication, and Culture in Southwestern Asia

    523
    CHARLES L. REDMAN
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    A Model for the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East

    543
    CHARLES A. REED
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    Changing Economy in Ancient India

    569
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    The Dynamics of Agricultural Origins in Palestine: A Theoretical Model

    589
    FEKRI A. HASSAN
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  • SECTION FOUR The Beginnings of Agriculture in the New World
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    The Origin of Zea mays

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    GEORGE W. BEADLE
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    Why Didn't the American Indians Domesticate Sheep?

    637
    CHRISTOPHER CARR
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    The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World

    693
    GEORGE F. CARTER
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    Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd: Spinden Revisited, or a Unitary Model for the Emergence of Agriculture in the New World

    713
    DONALD W. LATHRAP
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    The Beginning of Agriculture in Central Peru

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    RICHARD S. MacNEISH
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    Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics

    803
    BARBARA PICKERSGILL and CHARLES B. JR. HEISER
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    Animal Domestication in the Anaes

    837
    ELIZABETH S. WING
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    Native Plant Husbandry North of Mexico

    861
    RICHARD A. YARNELL
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  • SECTION FIVE Conclusions
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    Origins of Agriculture: Discussion and Some Conclusions

    879
    CHARLES A. REED
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  • SECTION SIX Appendix
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    A Radiocarbon Chronology Relevant to the Origins of Agriculture

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    ADINA KABAKER
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    Biographical Notes

    981
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    Index of Names

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    Index of Subjects

    1007
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January 1, 1978
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9789027979193
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Reprint 2011
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813487
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Keywords for this book
Agriculture; Origin; Congresses; Prehistoric peoples
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