Simulating Transitions To Agriculture In Prehistory
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Simulating Transitions To Agriculture In Prehistory
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Author : Salvador Pardo-Gordó
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-24
Simulating Transitions To Agriculture In Prehistory written by Salvador Pardo-Gordó and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-24 with Social Science categories.
This book highlights new and innovative approaches to archaeological research using computational modeling while focusing on the Neolithic transition around the world. The transformative effect of the spread and adoption of agriculture in prehistory cannot be overstated. Consequently, archaeologists have often focused their research on this transition, hoping to understand both the ecological causes and impacts of this shift, as well as the social motivations and constraints involved. Given the complex interplay of socio-ecological factors, the answers to these types of questions cannot be found using traditional archaeological methods alone. Computational modeling techniques have emerged as an effective approach for better understanding prehistoric data sets and the linkages between social and ecological factors at play during periods of subsistence change. Such techniques include agent-based modeling, Bayesian modeling, GIS modeling of the prehistoric environment, and the modeling of small-scale agriculture. As more archaeological data sets aggregate regarding the transition to agriculture, researchers are often left with few ways to relate these sets to one another. Computational modeling techniques such as those described above represent a critical next step in providing archaeological analyses that are important for understanding human prehistory around the world. Given its scope, this book will appeal to the many interdisciplinary scientists and researchers whose work involves archaeology and computational social science. Chapter “The Spread of Agriculture: Quantitative Laws in Prehistory?” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via springer.com.
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language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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From The Guajira Desert To The Apennines And From Mediterranean Microplates To The Mexican Killer Asteroid
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Author : Christian Koeberl
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date : 2022-08-01
From The Guajira Desert To The Apennines And From Mediterranean Microplates To The Mexican Killer Asteroid written by Christian Koeberl and has been published by Geological Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with Science categories.
"This volume pays tribute to the career and scientific accomplishments of Walter Alvarez with papers related to the many topics he has covered: tectonics of microplates, structural geology, paleomagnetics, Apennine sedimentary sequences, geoarchaeology and Roman volcanics, Big History, and the discovery of evidence for a large asteroidal impact event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (now Cretaceous-Paleogene) boundary site in Gubbio, Italy"--
Behavioral Ecology And The Transition To Agriculture
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Author : Douglas J. Kennett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-01-02
Behavioral Ecology And The Transition To Agriculture written by Douglas J. Kennett and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-02 with Nature categories.
This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions in human history: the origins of agriculture. Carefully balancing theory and detailed empirical study, and drawing from a series of ethnographic and archaeological case studies from eleven locations—including North and South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, the Near East, Africa, and the Pacific—the contributors to this volume examine the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and herding using a broad set of analytical models and concepts. These include diet breadth, central place foraging, ideal free distribution, discounting, risk sensitivity, population ecology, and costly signaling. An introductory chapter both charts the basics of the theory and notes areas of rapid advance in our understanding of how human subsistence systems evolve. Two concluding chapters by senior archaeologists reflect on the potential for human behavioral ecology to explain domestication and the transition from foraging to farming.
Farming Hunting And Fishing In The Olmec World
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Author : Amber M. VanDerwarker
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Farming Hunting And Fishing In The Olmec World written by Amber M. VanDerwarker and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The Olmec who anciently inhabited Mexico's southern Gulf Coast organized their once-egalitarian society into chiefdoms during the Formative period (1400 BC to AD 300). This increase in political complexity coincided with the development of village agriculture, which has led scholars to theorize that agricultural surpluses gave aspiring Olmec leaders control over vital resources and thus a power base on which to build authority and exact tribute. In this book, Amber VanDerwarker conducts the first multidisciplinary analysis of subsistence patterns at two Olmec settlements to offer a fuller understanding of how the development of political complexity was tied to both agricultural practices and environmental factors. She uses plant and animal remains, as well as isotopic data, to trace the intensification of maize agriculture during the Late Formative period. She also examines how volcanic eruptions in the region affected subsistence practices and settlement patterns. Through these multiple sets of data, VanDerwarker presents convincing evidence that Olmec and epi-Olmec lifeways of farming, hunting, and fishing were driven by both political and environmental pressures and that the rise of institutionalized leadership must be understood within the ecological context in which it occurred.
Transitions To Agriculture In Prehistory
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Author : Anne Birgitte Gebauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Transitions To Agriculture In Prehistory written by Anne Birgitte Gebauer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Social Science categories.
Uebergang zur Landwirtschaft - Prähistorie - Wirtschaftsgeschichte.
Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest
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Author : Joseph A. Tainter
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2018-05-04
Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest written by Joseph A. Tainter and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-04 with Science categories.
This book explores how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and offers important new perspectives on evolution of culture. It discusses the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress.
Europe S First Farmers
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Author : T. Douglas Price
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-09-14
Europe S First Farmers written by T. Douglas Price and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-14 with History categories.
Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.
The Origins And Spread Of Agriculture And Pastoralism In Eurasia
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Author : David R. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-11-01
The Origins And Spread Of Agriculture And Pastoralism In Eurasia written by David R. Harris and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-01 with Social Science categories.
As the first book to examine the origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in Europe and Asia as a whole, this major contribution should be essential reading for archaeologists, anthropologists, biologists and geographers. Adopting a novel approach to the subject, the authors examine it first in terms of seven different disciplinary perspectives: social, ecological, genetic, linguistic, biomolecular, epidemiological and geogrpahical. Then, 20 case studies are presented, which are based primarily on archaeological and biological evidence and which relate to three major regions: Southwest Asia, Europe and Central Asia to the Pacific. The book concludes with an overview of Eurasia as a whole.; The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture had revolutionary consequences for human society. It led to the emergence of urban civilizations and ultimately to humanity's almost complete dependence on relatively few domesticated animals and plants. The subject has been much studied, but the results have tended to be interpreted largely in terms of local cultural sequences, with insufficient comparison made with evidence from other areas. In contrast, this book provides a continental- scale framework, with its scope extended to pastoralism because in Eurasia both the raising of livestock and the cultivation of crops were integral components of the agricultural "revolution" from its inception some 10,000 years ago.; Comprehensive and authoritative, "The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia" should appeal strongly to the wide readership of students and specialists concerned with the prehistoric antecedents of modern civilization.
The Cambridge World History Of Food
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Author : Kenneth F. Kiple
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Cambridge World History Of Food written by Kenneth F. Kiple and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
A two-volume set which traces the history of food and nutrition from the beginning of human life on earth through the present.