Forest Farmers and Stockherders - Early Agriculture and Its Consequences in North-Central Europe

Klappentext Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation! this book explores the growth of a food-producing economy in the period 5000 3000 BC. Zusammenfassung Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, Forest Farmers and Stockherders explores the single most radical transformation in all European prehistory - the growth of a food-producing economy in the period 5000–3000 BC. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: investigating the European Neolithic; 2. Primeval central European habitats; 3. Indigenous foraging populations; 4. Primary Neolithic subsistence and settlement; 5. Population, ecology, and Primary Neolithic society; 6. Continuity and change, 3500-2500 BC; 7. The consequences of food production; 8. The social archaeology of Neolithic central Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Bogucki, Peter (Associate Dean for Undergraduate A Bogucki, Bogucki Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521103602
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10360-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: New Studies in Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)