First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

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ISBN-10:

0631205667

ISBN-13:

9780631205661

Author(s): Bellwood, Peter
Edition: 1
Released: Nov 30, 2004
Publisher: Wiley/Blackwell
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
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Description:

First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers 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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