First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by Bellwood, Peter

First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780631205661)

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First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by Bellwood, Peter

First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

$59.95
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by Bellwood, Peter

First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

$59.95
Format: Paperback
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First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world.

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


Author: Peter Bellwood
ISBN-10: 0631205667
ISBN-13: 9780631205661
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2004
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.16h x 7.20w x 1.08d
By Peter Bellwood
By Peter Bellwood
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Peter Bellwood is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University. He is the author of Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis (co-edited with Colin Renfrew, 2003), Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (2nd edition 1997), The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People (1987), and Man's Conquest of the Pacific: The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania (1986).

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