Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture / edited by Douglas J. Kennett and Bruce Winterhalder.
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TextSeries: Origins of human behavior and culture ; 1.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 394 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780520932456
- 0520932455
- 1423752686
- 9781423752684
- 1598759175
- 9781598759174
- 9780520246478
- 0520246470
- 1282759434
- 9781282759435
- Agriculture -- Origin
- Agriculture, Prehistoric
- Human behavior
- Human ecology
- Human evolution
- Behavior
- Agriculture -- Origines
- Agriculture préhistorique
- Comportement humain
- Écologie humaine
- Homme -- Évolution
- human behavior
- human ecology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- NATURE -- Ecology
- Agriculture -- Origin
- Agriculture, Prehistoric
- Human behavior
- Human ecology
- Human evolution
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- GN799.A4 B39 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1. Behavioral Ecology and the Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Agriculture; 2. A Future Discounting Explanation for the Persistence of a Mixed Foraging-Horticulture Strategy among the Mikea of Madagascar; 3. Central Place Foraging and Food Production on the Cumberland Plateau, Eastern Kentucky; 4. Aspects of Optimization and Risk During the Early Agricultural Period in Southeastern Arizona; 5. A Formal Model for Predicting Agriculture among the Fremont.
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.
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