Foragers And Farmers

Author : Susan A. Gregg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226307367
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foragers and Farmers written by Susan A. Gregg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-11-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregg (archaeology, Southern Ill. U.) argues that the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to settled agricultural communities in prehistoric Europe involved a wide variety of interactions for over a millennium. She considers the ecological requirements of crops and livestock, develops a computer simulation to identify an optimal farming strategy for early Neolithic populations, and models the effects that interaction with the farmers would have had on the foragers' subsistence-settlement system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691175896
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels written by Ian Morris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Why the West Rules—for Now examines the evolution and future of human values Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need—from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values. But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our most cherished values are very likely to turn out not to be useful any more. Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels offers a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications for how we understand the past—and for what might happen next. Originating as the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging responses by classicist Richard Seaford, historian of China Jonathan Spence, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, and novelist Margaret Atwood.

Author : Graeme Barker
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199559953
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory written by Graeme Barker and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing one of the most debated revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming, this title takes a global view, and integrates an array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology.

Author : Paul A. Raber
Publisher : Recent Research in Pennsylvani
ISBN 13 : 9780892711093
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foragers and Farmers of the Early and Middle Woodland Periods in Pennsylvania written by Paul A. Raber and published by Recent Research in Pennsylvani. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Paul Raber's bookreflect a range of recent research on what he describes as one of the most "enigmatic periods of Pennsylvania's prehistory." The issues outlined in Foragers and Farmers offer a framework in which continuing research on this period can contribute to the broader study of some of the major questions in archaeology.

Author : Ehud Weiss
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782973311
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Foragers to Farmers written by Ehud Weiss and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates the career of archaebotanist Professor Gordon C. Hillman. Twenty-eight papers cover a wide range of topics reflecting the great influence that Hillman has had in the field of archaeobotany. Many of his favourite research topics are covered, the body of the text being split into four sections: Personal reflections on Professor Hillman's career; archaeobotanical theory and method; ethnoarchaeological and cultural studies; and ancient plant use from sites and regions around the world. The collection demonstrates, as Gordon Hillman believes, that the study of archaebotany is not only valuable, but vital for any study of humanity.

Author : ROB. POULTON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957650992
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FORAGERS AND FARMERS written by ROB. POULTON and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara J. Roth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607814467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Holocene Research on Foragers and Farmers in the Desert West written by Barbara J. Roth and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides new perspectives on prehistoric foragers and farmers in the Southwest and Great Basin by highlighting the similarities and differences observed in these groups across time

Author : Robin Shulman
Publisher : Crown Pub
ISBN 13 : 0307719057
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eat the City written by Robin Shulman and published by Crown Pub. This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the experiences of New Yorkers who grow and produce food in bustling city environments, placing today's urban food production in a context of hundreds of years of history to explain the changing abilities of cities to feed people. 30,000 first printing.

Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520915666
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Houses in the Rainforest written by Roy Richard Grinker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique insights into their complex social relations and ethnic identities. By showing how political organization is structured by ethnic and gender relations in the Lese house, Grinker challenges previous views of the Lese and Efe and other farmer-forager societies, as well as the conventional anthropological boundary between domestic and political contexts.

Author : Elisa Callow
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1945551437
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Forager written by Elisa Callow and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urban Forager showcases one of California’s richest and most rapidly expanding culinary cultures: the eastside of Los Angeles. Food makers representing the eastside’s diverse food traditions share beloved recipes, ingredients, innovations, and neighborhood resources. It’s a hands-on, stunningly photographed collection of inspiring recipes, profiles, and references for both novice and adventurous home cooks as well as the culinarily curious.