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First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

ISBN: 978-0-631-20566-1

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Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years
Examines thereasons 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.