Hunters in Transition: Mesolithic Societies of Temperate Eurasia and Their Transition to Farming

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Marek Zvelebil
Cambridge University Press, 13 nov 1986 - 194 páginas
Hunters in Transition analyses one of the crucial events in human cultural evolution: the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming. Traditionally, the advantages of settled agriculture have been assumed and the transition to farming has been viewed in terms of the simple dispersal of early farming communities northwards across Europe. The contributors to this volume adopt a fresh, more subtle approach. Farming is viewed from a hunter-gatherer perspective as offering both advantages and disadvantages, organisational disruption during the period of transition and far-reaching social consequences for the existing way of life. The hunter-gatherer economy and farming in fact shared a common objective: a guaranteed food supply in a changing natural and social environment. Drawing extensively on research in eastern Europe and temperate Asia, the book argues persuasively for the essential unity of all post-glacial. adaptations whether leading to the dispersal of farming or the retention and elaboration of existing hunter-gatherer strategies.
 

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Part
5
aspects
17
ecological approaches
33
The role of huntinggathering populations in
43
Part
53
Foragers and farmers in Atlantic Europe
67
Foragers of Central Europe and their acculturation
95
The Late Mesolithic and the Transition to food
109
Foragers and farmers in westCentral Asia
121
The Mesolithic and Neolithic in the southern Urals
133
Huntergatherer adaptations and the transition
151
Index
189
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