Peter Bellwood: First Farmers, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Praise for the previous edition

"Bellwood is not afraid to challenge the established orthodoxy. This is a stimulating and thought-provoking assessment of one of the most important questions in archaeology today."
-Peter Bogucki, Princeton University

"This wonderful book is a fascinating treasure-house of information about human history since the origins of agriculture. It deserves to be a standard reference for archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, and anthropologists interested in the formation of the modern world."
-Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles

"A tour de force of historical anthropology. Rarely does one encounter a book with the sweeping historical scope of Peter Bellwood's convincing worldwide synthesis of agricultural origins and population dispersals."
-Patrick Kirch, University of California, Berkeley

"Global in its scope, Peter Bellwood's First Farmers boldly correlates the spreads of early farming with episodes of human population and language dispersal. It offers a powerfully coherent perspective, which challengingly sets one of the great themes of human history in a new and simplified vision."
-Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge

In this second edition of First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies, leading scholar Peter Bellwood delivers an expert examination of the origins of food production across the globe and reconstructs the migratory expansions of agricultural populations from 12, 000 years ago to the colonial era. Relying not just on the archaeological record, but also on linguistic and genomic data, especially new findings from the last ten years of research, Bellwood explores the latest evidence and theories surrounding the early development of agricultural practices in the Eurasian, African, and American continents. From the early farming dispersal hypothesis to an in-depth look at multiple foci of agricultural development, the new edition includes unprecedented information relevant to contemporary researchers and many new maps and illustrations.

First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies, Second Edition is an essential work of scholarship and an excellent introduction to multiple methods of anthropological and archaeological inquiry for the beginner students in prehistoric anthropology and archaeology, human migration, agricultural history, comparative anthropology, and more disciplines across the anthropology curriculum.