Group 1: The “niche” hunter-gatherers of Africa and Asia. Under what circumstances might hunters and gatherers have adopted agriculture in prehistory?. The significance of agriculture vis-à-vis hunting and gathering. Why did agriculture develop in the first place?. The significance of agriculture: productivity and population numbers. Ĝovers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecanġ The Early Farming Dispersal Hypothesis in Perspective.Ģ The Origins and Dispersals of Agriculture: Some Operational Considerations.ğocuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes.Ğxamines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture.Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years.First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societiesįirst 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.
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