{"product_id":"a-charles-reed-origins-of-agriculture-9789027979193","title":"Origins of Agriculture","description":"Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction \/ REED, CHARLES A. -- SECTION ONE General Principles -- The Origins of Agriculture: Prologue \/ REED, CHARLES A. -- The Earliest Farming: Demography as Cause and Consequence \/ BRONSON, BENNET -- The Concept of Environmental Determinism in Cultural Evolution \/ WAGNER, PHILIP L. -- SECTION TWO Worldwide Concepts -- Cultural Evolution in the Old World and the New, Leading to the Beginnings and Spread of Agriculture \/ CALDWELL, JOSEPH R. -- A Hypothesis Suggesting a Single Origin of Agriculture \/ CARTER, GEORGE F. -- Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru \/ COHEN, MARK N. -- Alternative Pathways Toward Agriculture \/ HARRIS, DAVID R. -- Zoological Considerations on the Origins of Farming and Domestication \/ HERRE, WOLF \/ RÖHRS, MANFRED -- Environmental Change and the Origin of Agriculture in the Old and New Worlds \/ WRIGHT, HERBERT E. JR. -- 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 \/ GORMAN, CHESTER -- The Origins of Cereal Agriculture in the Old World \/ HARLAN, JACK R. -- Economic Change in Prehistoric Thailand \/ HIGHAM, CHARLES F. W. -- The Indigenous Origins of Chinese Agriculture \/ HO, PING-TI -- Pre-Agricultural Tools for the Preparation of Foods in the Old World \/ KRAYBILL, NANCY -- Man, Domestication, and Culture in Southwestern Asia \/ REDMAN, CHARLES L. -- A Model for the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East \/ REED, CHARLES A. -- Changing Economy in Ancient India -- The Dynamics of Agricultural Origins in Palestine: A Theoretical Model \/ HASSAN, FEKRI A. -- SECTION FOUR The Beginnings of Agriculture in the New World -- The Origin of Zea mays \/ BEADLE, GEORGE W. -- Why Didn't the American Indians Domesticate Sheep? \/ CARR, CHRISTOPHER -- The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World \/ CARTER, GEORGE F. -- Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd: Spinden Revisited, or a Unitary Model for the Emergence of Agriculture in the New World \/ LATHRAP, DONALD W. -- The Beginning of Agriculture in Central Peru \/ MacNEISH, RICHARD S. -- Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics \/ PICKERSGILL, BARBARA \/ HEISER, CHARLES B. JR. -- Animal Domestication in the Anaes \/ WING, ELIZABETH S. -- Native Plant Husbandry North of Mexico \/ YARNELL, RICHARD A. -- SECTION FIVE Conclusions -- Origins of Agriculture: Discussion and Some Conclusions \/ REED, CHARLES A. -- SECTION SIX Appendix -- A Radiocarbon Chronology Relevant to the Origins of Agriculture \/ KABAKER, ADINA -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects","brand":"De Gruyter Mouton","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53139885883734,"sku":"9789027979193-G","price":39.48,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9789027979193_1.jpg?v=1782326132","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/a-charles-reed-origins-of-agriculture-9789027979193","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}