Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture
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 stud...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
c2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798032506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- 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
- 6. An Ecological Model for the Origins of Maize-Based Food Production on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico
- 7. The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the Neotropics
- 8. Costly Signaling, the Sexual Division of Labor, and Animal Domestication in the Andean Highlands
- 9. Human Behavioral Ecology, Domestic Animals, and Land Use during the Transition to Agriculture in Valencia, Eastern Spain
- 10. Breaking the Rain Barrier and the Tropical Spread of Near Eastern Agriculture into Southern Arabia
- 11. The Emergence of Agriculture in New Guinea
- 12. The Ideal Free Distribution, Food Production, and the Colonization of Oceania
- 13. Human Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Food Production
- 14. Agriculture, Archaeology, and Human Behavioral Ecology
- References
- Index
