Origins of Agriculture

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1977

Origins of Agriculture

Edited by: Charles A. Reed

In the series World Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813487

Contents

I-VI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
General Editor's Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Introduction CHARLES A. REED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
SECTION ONE General Principles
The Origins of Agriculture: Prologue CHARLES A. REED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
The Earliest Farming: Demography as Cause and Consequence BENNET BRONSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
The Concept of Environmental Determinism in Cultural Evolution PHILIP L. WAGNER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
SECTION TWO Worldwide Concepts
Cultural Evolution in the Old World and the New, Leading to the Beginnings and Spread of Agriculture JOSEPH R. CALDWELL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
A Hypothesis Suggesting a Single Origin of Agriculture GEORGE F. CARTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru MARK N. COHEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Alternative Pathways Toward Agriculture DAVID R. HARRIS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Zoological Considerations on the Origins of Farming and Domestication WOLF HERRE and MANFRED RÖHRS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Environmental Change and the Origin of Agriculture in the Old and New Worlds HERBERT E. JR. WRIGHT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
SECTION THREE The Beginnings of Agriculture in the Old World
A Priori Models and Thai Prehistory: A Reconsideration of the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southeastern Asia CHESTER GORMAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
The Origins of Cereal Agriculture in the Old World JACK R. HARLAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Economic Change in Prehistoric Thailand CHARLES F. W. HIGHAM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
The Indigenous Origins of Chinese Agriculture PING-TI HO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Pre-Agricultural Tools for the Preparation of Foods in the Old World NANCY KRAYBILL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
Man, Domestication, and Culture in Southwestern Asia CHARLES L. REDMAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523
A Model for the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East CHARLES A. REED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
Changing Economy in Ancient India Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569
The Dynamics of Agricultural Origins in Palestine: A Theoretical Model FEKRI A. HASSAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	589
SECTION FOUR The Beginnings of Agriculture in the New World
The Origin of Zea mays GEORGE W. BEADLE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	615
Why Didn't the American Indians Domesticate Sheep? CHRISTOPHER CARR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	637
The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World GEORGE F. CARTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	693
Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd: Spinden Revisited, or a Unitary Model for the Emergence of Agriculture in the New World DONALD W. LATHRAP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	713
The Beginning of Agriculture in Central Peru RICHARD S. MacNEISH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	753
Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics BARBARA PICKERSGILL and CHARLES B. JR. HEISER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	803
Animal Domestication in the Anaes ELIZABETH S. WING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	837
Native Plant Husbandry North of Mexico RICHARD A. YARNELL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	861
SECTION FIVE Conclusions
Origins of Agriculture: Discussion and Some Conclusions CHARLES A. REED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	879
SECTION SIX Appendix
A Radiocarbon Chronology Relevant to the Origins of Agriculture ADINA KABAKER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	957
Biographical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	981
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	995
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1007

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Copyright year: 1977
Edition: Reprint 2011
Pages
- Front matter: 16
- Main content: 1013
Illustrations
- Other: Figs. Maps.Tabs.
Keywords: Agriculture; Origin; Congresses; Prehistoric peoples

eBook

Published: June 3, 2011
ISBN: 9783110813487

Hardcover

Published: January 1, 1978
ISBN: 9789027979193