Europe's first farmers
Plants and animals originally domesticated in the Near East arrived in Europe between 7,000 and 4,000 BC. Was the new technology introduced by migrants, or was it an 'inside job'? How were the new species adapted to European conditions? What were the immediate and long-term consequences of...
Other Authors: | Price, T. Douglas |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
New York : 2000. |
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xv, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
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Plants and animals originally domesticated in the Near East arrived in Europe between 7,000 and 4,000 BC. Was the new technology introduced by migrants, or was it an 'inside job'? How were the new species adapted to European conditions? What were the immediate and long-term consequences of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming? These central questions in the prehistory of Europe are discussed here by leading specialists, drawing on the latest scholarship in fields as diverse as genetics and IndoEuropean linguistics. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-376) and index. Europe's first farmers : an introduction / T. Douglas Price -- Southeastern Europe in the transition to agriculture in Europe : bridge, buffer, or mosaic / Ruth Tringham -- Transition to agriculture in eastern Europe / Marek Zvelebil and Malcolm Lillie -- Cardial pottery and the agricultural transition in Mediterranean Europe / William K. Barnett -- Mesolithic and Neolithic interaction in southern France and northern Italy : new data and current hypotheses / Didier Binder -- From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in the Iberian peninsula / João Zilhão -- Origins of agriculture in south-central Europe / Michael Jochim -- How agriculture came to north-central Europe / Peter Bogucki -- Getting back to basics : transitions to farming in Ireland and Britain / Peter Woodman -- Introduction of farming in northern Europe ; Lessons in the transition to agriculture / T. Douglas Price. Plants and animals originally domesticated in the Near East arrived in Europe between 7,000 and 4,000 BC. Was the new technology introduced by migrants, or was it an 'inside job'? How were the new species adapted to European conditions? What were the immediate and long-term consequences of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming? These central questions in the prehistory of Europe are discussed here by leading specialists, drawing on the latest scholarship in fields as diverse as genetics and IndoEuropean linguistics. |
Physical Description: |
xv, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-376) and index. |
ISBN: |
0521662036 9780521662031 0521665728 9780521665728 |