Hunters in Transition: Mesolithic Societies of Temperate Eurasia and their Transition to Farming - Couverture rigide

Zvelebil, Marek

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521268680 ISBN 13 : 9780521268684

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Hunters in Transition analyses the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521268680
• ISBN 13: 9780521268684
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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