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First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

By Peter Bellwood

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2004
ISBN
0631205659, 9780631205654
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5602310 bytes)
Pages
332\0
Time added
2018-12-19 12:35:39

Description

First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societiesoffers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan

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