First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

List of Maps.

Preface.

1 The Early Farming Dispersal Hypothesis in Perspective.

2 The Origins and Dispersals of Agriculture: Some Operational Considerations.

3 The Beginnings of Agriculture in Southwest Asia.

4 Tracking the Spreads of Farming Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Europe and Asia.

5 Africa: An Independent Focus of Agricultural Development?.

6 The Beginnings of Agriculture in China.

7 The Spread of Agriculture into Southeast Asia and Oceania.

8 Early Agriculture and its Spread in the Americas.

9 What Do Language Families Mean for Human Prehistory?.

10 The Spread of Farming: Comparing the Archaeology and the Linguistics.

11 Genetics, Skeletal Anthropology, and the People Factor.

12 The Nature of Early Agricultural Expansion.

Index