Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began (Darwinism Today) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers Tradition has it that agriculture began in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago, that once people realized the advantages of farming, it spread rapidly to the furthest outposts of the world, and that this led to the Neolithic Revolution and the end of the hunting-gathering lifestyle. In this book Colin Tudge argues that agriculture in some form was in the repertoire of our ancestors for thousan...
Full description- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Published: 11 October 1999
- Format: Hardback 64 pages
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- Categories: Anthropology | Agriculture & Farming | Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9780300080247 ISBN 10: 0300080247
- Sales rank: 642,760
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Full description for Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers
Tradition has it that agriculture began in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago, that once people realized the advantages of farming, it spread rapidly to the furthest outposts of the world, and that this led to the Neolithic Revolution and the end of the hunting-gathering lifestyle. In this book Colin Tudge argues that agriculture in some form was in the repertoire of our ancestors for thousands of years before the Neolithic farming revolution: people did not suddenly invent forced into it over a long period. What we see in the Neolithic Revolution is not the beginning of agriculture on a large scale, in one place, with refined tools.Drawing on a wide range of evidence from fossil records to the Bible, Tudge offers a persuasive hypothesis about a puzzling epoch in our past. In so doing, he provides new insights into the Pleistocene overkill, the demise of the Neanderthals, the location of the biblical Eden, and much more.
