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Contents List of Figures x List of Tables xv fmbm Abbreviations xvi 1 Approaches to the Origins of Agriculture 1 2 Understanding Foragers 42 3 Identifying Foragers and Farmers 73 4 The `Hearth of Domestication'? Transitions to Farming in South-West Asia 104 5 Central and South Asia: The Wheat/Rice Frontier 149 6 Rice and Forest Farming in East and South-East Asia 182 7 Weed, Tuber, and Maize Farming in the Americas 231 8 Africa: Afro-Asiatic Pastoralists and Bantu Farmers? 273 9 Transitions to Farming in Europe: Ex Oriente Lux? 325 10 The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? 382 References 415 Index 527
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Agriculture, Prehistoric.
Agriculture -- Origin.
Plants, Cultivated -- Origin.
Plant remains (Archaeology).