The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory
Why did Foragers become Farmers?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23399797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Barker (0000-0002-2678-4283, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 598 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION IN PREHISTORY: WHY DID FORAGERS BECOME FARMERS? (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199281091.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4255493396 |
| Open Library | OL22739984M |
| ISBN | 9780199281091 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 90 |
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.
Agricultural revolution · Agriculture · Appeal · Archaeology · Audience measurement · Biology · Geography · Ideology · Indigenous · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Prehistory · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Cultivated Plants · Origin · Plant remains (Archaeology) · Prehistoric · Prehistoric Agriculture
The Archaeology of Sudan and Nubia
Imposing the Neolithic on the past
When social status gets in the way of reproduction in modern settings
Food, pots and socio-economic transformation
Muddying the Waters
Multilevel processes and cultural adaptation
Archaeological Approaches to Agricultural Economies
The world reshaped
Accommodating agriculture at al-Khayran
Plants, People, and Diet in the Neolithic of Western Eurasia
Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory
Human Energetics
Farming-Language Dispersals (1)
Un-Settled Encounters; or, if Walls Could Speak
The Diffusion of Humans and Cultures in the Course of the Spread of Farming
The Origins of Food Production in Mesoamerica
Communities
Getting It Together
Regional study
Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies
Clarifying ambiguity
Agricultural Origins
The evolution of lexical semantics dynamics, directionality, and drift
« Superstition ain’t the way ». L’optimisme du théoricien du complot
“Superstition ain’t the way”. The Optimism of the Conspiracy Theorist
First lipid residue analysis of Early Neolithic pottery from Swifterbant (the Netherlands, ca. 4300–4000 BC)
Neolithisation in North China
The Neolithisation of Liguria (NW Italy)
Environmental archaeologies of Neolithisation
Freeze-framing territory
Human-environment interaction during the Holocene along the shoreline of the Ancient Lake Ladoga
Dogs, humans and island ecosystems
Archaeobotanical evidence of crop growing and diet within the areas of the Karanovo and the Linear Pottery Cultures
The environment they lived in
The Routledge Handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
On the sensitivity of the simulated European Neolithic transition to climate extremes
Industrial Transformation
An evolutionary theory of human knowledge progress
The Cognition of Homo neanderthalensis and H. sapiens
What Have Genetics Ever Done for Us? The Implications of aDNA Data for Interpreting Identity in Early Neolithic Central Europe
From Cave to Cage? The Evolution of Housing Complexity and the Contemporary Dead End for the Human Brain
Resisters, Vacillators or Laggards? Reconsidering the First Farmer-Herders in Prehistoric Egypt
Introduction
A Tale of Two Taphonomies
The mean measure of divergence
Human display and dispersal
From wild horses to domestic horses
The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution and the Origins of Private Property
The Origin of the State
Religion
The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008
Ais Giorkis
Macroevolutionary Origins of Comparative Development
AMS Dates of New Maize Specimens Found in Rock Shelters of the Tehuacan Valley
Stable Isotope and Radiocarbon Analysis in Animal Bones from the Prehistoric Settlement of Dispilio, Kastoria Lake, Northern Greece
Human agency and social structure
What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia
Material Choices for Fibre in the Neolithic
Missing persons’
Who were they really? model‐free and model‐bound dental nonmetric analyses to affirm documented population affiliations of seven S outh A frican “Bantu” samples
Fertility and Agriculture Accentuate Sex Differences in Dental Caries Rates
Multiregional Emergence of Mobile Pastoralism and Nonuniform Institutional Complexity across Eurasia
A Combined and Uneven Development Approach to the European Neolithic
Modelling the Neolithic Transition in the Near East and Europe
The integration of millets into rice agriculture in the mountainous region of southern Zhejiang, China
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution
General/Specific, Local/Global
Of Seeds, Seasons, and Seas
From extensive collection to intensive cultivation, the role of fruits and nuts in subsistence economy on Chinese Loess Plateau
Practice beyond category
"Comentario Sobre "Montículos de la Cuenca de la Laguna Merín
The transition from foraging to farming in prehistory and 'ethnography
Zooarchaeology at the Niah Caves, Sarawak
Moudre ou faire bouillir
Agricultural innovation
Horticultural experimentation in northern Australia reconsidered
Early farming in Island Southeast Asia
The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East
Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia
An 11 600 year-old communal structure from the Neolithic of southern Jordan
The re-emergence ofnganaparru(water buffalo) into the culture, landscape and rock art of western Arnhem Land
Architects of change
A Struggle for Trust
Why the Neolithic is (r)evolutionary
The Pastoral Effect
Material Culture, Landscapes of Action, and Emergent Causation
Early Agriculture and Plant Domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia
Westward Ho
Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Agriculturalists
Choice and Necessity
| Unique citing works | 90 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,46 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 81 |