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Klappentext Hunters in Transition analyses the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming. Zusammenfassung Hunters in Transition analyses one of the crucial events in human cultural evolution: the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming. Traditionally! the advantages of settled agriculture have been assumed and the transition to farming has been viewed in terms of the simple dispersal of early farming communities northwards across Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the scope of the present volume Marek Zvelebil; Part I. The Mesolithic Context of the Transition to Farming; 1. Mesolithic prelude and Neolithic revolution Marek Zvelebil; 2. Between cave painters and crop planters: aspects of the temperate European Mesolithic Peter Rowley-Conwy; 3. The Mesolithic sandwich: ecological approaches and the archaeological record of the early post-glacial Clive Gamble; 4. The role of hunting-gathering populations in the transition to farming: a Central-European perspective Slavomil Vencl; Part II. Regional Studies: 5. The transition to food production: a Mediterranean perspective James Lewthwaite; 6. Foragers and farmers in Atlantic Europe Marek Zvelebil and Peter Rowley-Conwy; 7. Foragers of Central Europe and their acculturation Janusz K. Koztowski and Stefan K. Koztowski; 8. The late mesolithic and the transition to food production in Eastern Europe P. M. Dolukhanov; 9. Foragers and farmers in west-Central Asia P. M. Dolukhanov; 10. The Mesolithic and Neolithic in the southern Urals and Central Asia G. Matyushin; 11. Hunter-gatherer adaptations and the transition to food production in Japan Takeru Akazawa; 12. Mesolithic societies and the transition to farming: problems of time, scale and organisation Marek Zvelebil; Index.
