First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural SocietiesISBN: 978-0-631-20565-4
Hardcover
332 pages
October 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
 Other Available Formats: Paperback
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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
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