{"product_id":"hunters-in-transition-marek-zvelebil-9780521109574","title":"Hunters in Transition: Mesolithic Societies of Temperate Eurasia and Their Transition to Farming","description":"Hunters in Transition analyses one of the crucial events in human cultural evolution: the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming. Traditionally, the advantages of settled agriculture have been assumed and the transition to farming has been viewed in terms of the simple dispersal of early farming communities northwards across Europe. The contributors to this volume adopt a fresh, more subtle approach. Farming is viewed from a hunter-gatherer perspective as offering both advantages and disadvantages, organisational disruption during the period of transition and far-reaching social consequences for the existing way of life. The hunter-gatherer economy and farming in fact shared a common objective: a guaranteed food supply in a changing natural and social environment. Drawing extensively on research in eastern Europe and temperate Asia, the book argues persuasively for the essential unity of all post-glacial. adaptations whether leading to the dispersal of farming or the retention and elaboration of existing hunter-gatherer strategies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marek Zvelebil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521109574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521109574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.43d","brand":"Marek Zvelebil","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056249467135,"sku":"9780521109574","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0965f887-49ba-46ec-ac03-7b34c743f1d5.jpg?v=1685040315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hunters-in-transition-marek-zvelebil-9780521109574","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}