Full name: First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

Author: Peter Bellwood Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Anthology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780631205661 0631205667

First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan Similar books: After the Ice by Steven Mithen Civilization or Barbarism by Cheikh Anta Diop The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age by Richard Rudgley Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers by Colin Tudge The Man in the Ice by Konrad Spindler The Great Journey by Brian Fagan Timewalkers by Clive Gamble Prehistory by Colin Renfrew Against the Grain by James C. Scott In Search of the Indo-Europeans by J. P. Mallory Europe Between the Oceans by Barry Cunliffe The World We Used to Live In by Vine Deloria Jr. People of the Deer by Farley Mowat The Ancient Maya by Robert J. Sharer Hubbub by Emily Cockayne The Maya by Michael Coe Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest by Stephen Plog The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage Castes of Mind by Nicholas B. Dirks