2. A Future Discounting Explanation for the Persistence of a Mixed Foraging-Horticulture Strategy among the Mikea of Madagascar

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Preface xiii
6. 1. Behavioral Ecology and the Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Agriculture 1
7. 2. A Future Discounting Explanation for the Persistence of a Mixed Foraging-Horticulture Strategy among the Mikea of Madagascar 22
8. 3. Central Place Foraging and Food Production on the Cumberland Plateau, Eastern Kentucky 41
9. 4. Aspects of Optimization and Risk During the Early Agricultural Period in Southeastern Arizona 63
10. 5. A Formal Model for Predicting Agriculture among the Fremont 87
11. 6. An Ecological Model for the Origins of Maize-Based Food Production on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico 103
12. 7. The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the Neotropics 137
13. 8. Costly Signaling, the Sexual Division of Labor, and Animal Domestication in the Andean Highlands 167
14. 9. Human Behavioral Ecology, Domestic Animals, and Land Use during the Transition to Agriculture in Valencia, Eastern Spain 197
15. 10. Breaking the Rain Barrier and the Tropical Spread of Near Eastern Agriculture into Southern Arabia 217
16. 11. The Emergence of Agriculture in New Guinea 237
17. 12. The Ideal Free Distribution, Food Production, and the Colonization of Oceania 265
18. 13. Human Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Food Production 289
19. 14. Agriculture, Archaeology, and Human Behavioral Ecology 304
20. References 323
21. Index 381