First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

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Wiley, 30 nov 2004 - 384 páginas
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.


  • Uses data from archaeology, 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
  • Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan

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First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies
Peter Bellwood
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Peter Bellwood
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Sobre el autor (2004)

Peter Bellwood is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University. He is the author of Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis (co-edited with Colin Renfrew, 2003), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (2nd edition 1997), The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People (1987), and Man’s Conquest of the Pacific: The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania (1986).

Información bibliográfica

TítuloFirst Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies
AutorPeter Bellwood
Ediciónilustrada, reimpresa
EditorWiley, 2004
ISBN0631205667, 9780631205661
N.º de páginas384 páginas
  
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