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Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation (Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology) - Softcover

 
9781138817906: Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation (Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology)
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ISBN 10: 1138817902 ISBN 13: 9781138817906
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This volume develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. It modifies the conceptual dichotomy between "hunter-gatherers" and "farmers", viewing human exploitation of plant resources as a global evolutionary process which incorporated the beginnings of cultivation and crop domestication. The studies throughout the book come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. This work is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists and geographers. Originally published 1989.

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David R. Harris

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138817902
ISBN 13 
9781138817906
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
766
Editor
Harris David R., Hillman Gordon C.