The transition from foraging to farming in prehistory and 'ethnography'

World Archaeology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 557-573

  Bulbeck, David ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foraging farming transition; Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas; subsistence task scheduling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DIET; FARMING SYSTEM; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PREHISTORIC; SUBSISTENCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84887988347     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2013.821668     Document Type: Article

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