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First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural SocietiesISBN: 978-0-631-20566-1
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384 pages
November 2004, ©2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the
Year
Peter Bellwood - 2006 SAA Book Award - The Society for
American Archaeology annually awards a prize to honor a recently
published book that has had, or is expected to have, a major impact
on the direction and character of archaeological research, and/or
is expected to make a substantial contribution to the archaeology
of an area.
"Do not be misled by the humble title of Bellwood's book ...
this volume stands alone in its scope and depth ... No student of
anthropology, irrespective of subfield, should leave this book
unread. It is and will remain one of the most important
anthropological volumes of the 21st century."
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"This book is a superb advertisement for archaeology as part of
a multidisciplinary approach to the problem of how, where, and why
our ancestors settled to plough and pasture." Times Higher
Education Supplement
“Bellwood is not afraid to challenge the established
orthodoxy. This is a stimulating and thought-provoking assessment
of one of the most important questions in archaeology today.”
Peter Bogucki, Princeton University
“This wonderful book is a fascinating treasure-house of
information about human history since the origins of agriculture.
It deserves to be a standard reference for archaeologists,
linguists, geneticists, and anthropologists interested in the
formation of the modern world.” Jared Diamond, University
of California, Los Angeles; author of Guns, Germs, and
Steel
“A tour de force of historical anthropology. Rarely does one
encounter a book with the sweeping historical scope of Peter
Bellwood’s convincing worldwide synthesis of agricultural
origins and population dispersals.” Patrick Kirch,
University of California, Berkeley
“Global in its scope, Peter Bellwood’s First Farmers
boldly correlates the spreads of early farming with episodes of
human population and language dispersal. It offers a powerfully
coherent perspective, which challengingly sets one of the great
themes of human history in a new and simplified vision.”
Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge
"Bellwood is a master at summarising complex information... the
real strength of this volume is that it will make accessible to
students such a wide range of data and interpretations." New
Book Chronicle
"Unlike many books, Bellwood's represents the cogent
unfolding of a complex argument that draws on disparate types of
information ... It is certainly the most scholarly, single-authored
review of global agricultural origins on the market." Austrlian
Archaeology
"The book certainly contains a good deal of interesting data and analysis." Anthropology in Action