Transitions to agriculture in prehistory /

Transitions to agriculture in prehistory / edited by Anne Birgitte Gebauer and T. Douglas Price. - Madison, Wis. : Prehistory Press, c1992. - vii, 180 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. - Monographs in world archaeology, no. 4 1055-2316 ; . - Monographs in world archaeology no. 4. .

"Papers ... presented at a symposium on the transition to agriculture held at the 1991 meeting of the Society for American Anthropology"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foragers to farmers / Anne Birgitte Gebauer and T. Douglas Price -- Contrasting expectations in theories of domestication / Brian Hayden -- From foraging to farming in the Mediterranean Levant / Ofer Bar-Yosef and Anna Belfer-Cohen -- The dispersal of food production across the Levant / Brian F. Byrd -- The beginnings of food production in the Eastern Sahara / Angela E. Close and Fred Wendorf -- Desperately seeking Ceres / R.E. Donahue -- The introduction of agriculture to the western North European Plain / Lawrence H. Keeley -- The final frontier : first farmers in northern Europe / T. Douglas Price and Anne Birgitte Gebauer -- The transitions to agriculture in Japan / Gary W. Crawford -- Non-agricultural staples and agricultural supplements / Michael Blake [and others] -- Foraging systems and plant cultivation during the emergence of agricultural economies in the prehistoric American Southwest / W.H. Wills.

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Agriculture--Origin--Congresses.
Agriculture, Prehistoric--Congresses.


Conference papers and proceedings

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