Introduction: Changing Paradigms in Our Understanding of the Transition to Agriculture: Human Bioarchaeology, Behaviour and Adaptaion

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-13

  Stock, Jay T ^a   Pinhasi, Ron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

'Neolithic Revolution', and Gordon Childe hunting and gathering to agricultural subsistence in the Holocene; Agricultural subsistence on health and palaeopathological paradigm; Agriculture, its impact on human biology from North America, behavioural correlates of subsistence transitions; Agriculture, primary means of production underpinning global population and economy; Biological change, and origins of agriculture dental and mandibular size reduction; Human evolution, speeding up in prehistory bioarchaeological evidences for changes, associated with transition to agriculture; Modern human origins and dispersals ending cultural and biological evolution; Transition to agriculture changes in human social organization, property ownership, task specialization and runaway technological evolution; Transition to agriculture, and changing paradigms human bioarchaeology, behaviour and adaption; Transition to agriculture, in the Levant of the Eastern Mediterranean Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan

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EID: 84887519165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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