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Item Details
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FIRST FARMERS - THE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES
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| By: |
Peter Bellwood |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£34.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0631205667 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780631205661 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
5 October, 2004 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
Offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in various parts of the world. This book focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, and the northern Andes. It examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture. |
| Synopsis: |
"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. This book: uses data from archeology, 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; and, covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Blackwell Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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