The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory by Graeme Barker

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory by Graeme Barker

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 strong case for the development of agricultural systems in many areas as transformations in the life-ways of the indigenous forager societies, and argues that these were as much changes in social norms and ideologies as in ways of obtaining food. With a large number of helpful line drawings and photographs as well as a comprehensive bibliography, this authoritative study will appeal to a wide general readership as well as to specialists in a variety of fields.

..a masterpiece of interdisciplinary synthesis, which encompasses all parts of the world, not just well-researched areas...He puts today's all-embracing, and often popular, theories in a much more sophisticated context. This important and erudite work will surely become a classic... * Brian Fagan, European Journal of Archaeology *
a magisterial survey on a global scale * Peter Bogucki, *

Graeme Barker is Disney Professor of Archaeology, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9780199559954
ISBN 10	0199559953
Title	The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory
Author	Graeme Barker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2009-01-22
Number of pages	616
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