MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01634cam a22002774a 4500
001 2004003944
003 DLC
005 20070117081906.0
008 040219s2005 mauab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004003944
020 $a0631205659 (hc : alk. paper)
020 $a0631205667 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aGN799.A4$bB45 2005
082 00 $a630/.9/01$222
100 1 $aBellwood, Peter S.
245 10 $aFirst Farmers :$bthe origins of agricultural societies /$cPeter Bellwood.
260 $aMalden, MA :$bBlackwell Pub.,$cc2005.
300 $axix, 360 p. :$bill., maps ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 292-349) and index.
505 0 $aThe early farming dispersal hypothesis in perspective -- The origins and dispersals of agriculture : some operational considerations -- The beginnings of agriculture in Southwest Asia -- Tracking the spreads of farming beyond the Fertile Crescent : Europe and Asia -- Africa : an independent focus of agricultural development? -- The beginnings of agriculture in East Asia -- The spread of agriculture into Southeast Asia and Oceania -- Early agriculture and its spread in the Americas -- What do language families mean for human prehistory? -- The spread of farming : comparing the archaeology and the linguistics -- Genetics, skeletal anthropology, and the people factor -- The nature of early agricultural expansion.
650 0 $aAgriculture$xOrigin.
650 0 $aAgriculture, Prehistoric.
650 0 $aPlants, Cultivated$xOrigin.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0415/2004003944.html