| Description |
256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Human population history, from Afro-Asia to the New World, and its possible relationship to economic change / Don Brothwell -- 'Frontier' concept in prehistory: the end of the moving frontier / John Alexander -- Advantages of agriculture / Bryony Orme -- Origins of agriculture in the Near East / A.J. Legge -- Hunters, gatherers and first farmers in West Africa / Thurstan Shaw -- Hunters, pastoralists and early agriculturalists in South Asia / Bridget Allchin -- Hoabinhian: hunter-gatherers or early agriculturalists in South-East Asia? / I.C. Glover -- Hunting neolithic: adaptations to the food quest in prehistoric Papua New Guinea / Jim Allen -- Man and environment in Polynesia / Peter Gathercole -- Earliest hunters, gatherers and farmers of North America / Joan J. Taylor -- From foraging to farming in early Mexico / Warwick Bray |
| Summary |
Brief references to Aborigines in many of the papers |
| Analysis |
Agriculture Origin |
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Economics, Prehistoric |
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Social change |
| Notes |
Distributed in North America by Humanites Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Event |
1977 |
| Subject |
Neolithic period.
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Hunting and gathering societies.
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Traditional farming -- Congresses.
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Hunting -- Congresses.
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Hunting, Prehistoric -- Congresses.
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Congresses.
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Prehistoric peoples.
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Hunting.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Farmers.
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Hunters.
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Traditional farming.
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Economics, Prehistoric.
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Agriculture -- Origin.
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Social change.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Megaw, J. V. S.
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| LC no. |
79307594 |
| ISBN |
0718511360 : |
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