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Explores the 7500-year history of the area around Tuscania, a small town near Rome, using the results of an extended archaeological investigation. Demonstrates the power of this approach to write long-term histories that complement and enrich historical and geographical studies.

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The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Against current orthodoxy, Barker develops a stron...

Exploring the origins and impact of agriculture and agricultural communities across the globe, Volume 2 examines arguably the most important change in all of human history. Chapters trace common developments in the more complex social structures and cultural forms that agriculture enabled, and present regional overviews and detailed case studies.

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This book addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, integrating an array of information from archaeology and other disciplines including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology.

Explores the origins and impact of agriculture across the globe, arguably the most important change in all of human history.

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Does it make sense to understand the prehistory, history and present-day patterns of life in Southeast Asia in terms of a distinction between two ways of life: farming and foraging? This is the central question addressed by the anthropologists and archaeologists contributing to this volume. Inherent within the question Why Cultivate? are people's relationships with the physical world: are they primarily to do with subsistence and economics or ...

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This book is the companion volume to Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Together they present the results of new fieldwork in the caves and new studies of finds from earlier excavations, a project that has involved a team of over 70 archaeologists and geographers. Rainforest Foraging and Farming told the story of human activity in the caves over the past 50, 000 years and how t...

A masterly account of prehistoric farming and its potential to influence today's industrial farmers.

The Etruscans were the creators of one of the most highly developed cultures of the pre-Roman Mediterranean.