| Description |
xiii, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
Origins of human behavior and culture ; 1
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Origins of human behavior and culture ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-380) and index. |
| Contents |
Behavioral ecology and the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture / Bruce Winterhalder and Douglas J. Kennett -- A future discounting explanation for the persistence of a mixed foraging-horticulture strategy among the Mikea of Madagascar / Bram Tucker -- Central place foraging and food production on the Cumberland Plateau, Eastern Kentucky / Kristen J. Gremillion -- Aspects of optimization and risk during the early agricultural period in southeastern Arizona / Michael W. Diehl and Jennifer A. Waters -- A formal model for predicting agriculture among the Fremont / K. Renee Barlow -- An ecological model for the origins of maize-based food production on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico / Douglas J. Kennett, Barbara Voorhies, and Dean Martorana -- The origins of plant cultivation and domestication in the neotropics: a behavioral ecological perspective / Dolores R. Piperno -- Costly signaling, the sexual division of labor, and plant and animal domestication in the Andean highlands / Mark Aldenderfer -- Human behavioral ecology, domestic animals, and land use during the transition to agriculture in Valencia, eastern Spain / Sarah B. McClure, Michael A. Jochim and C. Michael Barton -- Breaking the rain barrier and the tropical spread of near eastern agriculture into southern Arabia / Joy McCorriston -- The emergence of agriculture in New Guinea: a model of continuity from pre-existing foraging practices / Tim Denham and Huw Barton -- The ideal free distribution, food production and the colonization of Oceania / Douglas Kennett, Atholl Anderson, and Bruce Winterhalder -- Human behavioral ecology and the transition to food production / Bruce D. Smith -- Agriculture, archaeology, and human behavioral ecology / Robert Bettinger. |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- Origin.
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Agriculture -- Origin. |
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Agriculture, Prehistoric.
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Agriculture, Prehistoric. |
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Human behavior.
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Human behavior. |
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Human ecology.
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Human ecology. |
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Human evolution.
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Human evolution. |
| Added Author |
Kennett, Douglas J.
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Winterhalder, Bruce.
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| ISBN |
0520246470 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520246478 cloth alkaline paper |
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