Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture

Informationen zum Autor Douglas J. Kennett! Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon! is author of The Island Chumash (California! 2005). Bruce Winterhalder! Professor of Anthropology and the Graduate Group in Ecology at the University of California! Davis! is coeditor of Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior (1992) and Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies (1981). Klappentext "For the newcomer to the literature and logic of human behavioral ecology! this book is a flat-out bonanza-entirely accessible! self-critical! largely free of polemic! and! above all! stimulating beyond measure. It's an extraordinary contribution. Our understanding of the foraging-farming dynamic may just have changed forever."-David Hurst Thomas! American Museum of Natural History Zusammenfassung Explores one of the most consequential transitions in human history: the origins of agriculture. Drawing from a series of ethnographic and archaeological case studies from eleven locations, this title examines the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and herding using a set of analytical models and concepts.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas J. Kennett, Douglas J. (EDT)/ Winterhalder Kennett, Douglas J. Winterhalder Kennett
• Assisted by: Douglas J. Kennett (Editor), Kennett Douglas J. (Editor), Bruce Winterhalder (Editor), Winterhalder Bruce (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.01.2006
• EAN: 9780520246478
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24647-8
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 267 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Origins of Human Behavior and Culture; Origins of Human Behavior and; Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING