From Foraging to Agriculture: The Levant at the End of the Ice Age

About 10,000 years ago, humans abandoned three or four million yeas of successful foraging in favor of agriculture--and human society was fundamentally changed. In this book Donald Henry traces the path from simple foraging to agriculture. He challenges several contemporary theories on the origin of...

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Main Author: Henry, Donald O. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [1989]
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Summary:About 10,000 years ago, humans abandoned three or four million yeas of successful foraging in favor of agriculture--and human society was fundamentally changed. In this book Donald Henry traces the path from simple foraging to agriculture. He challenges several contemporary theories on the origin of agriculture and introduces an alternative model that links the major adaptive shifts to changes in climate, changes in the distribution of resources, and a reduction in human adaptive flexibility
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource 77 illus
ISBN:9781512816822
DOI:10.9783/9781512816822

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