First Farmers Av Peter (Australian National University) Bellwood

<p><b>A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the world</b><p>This fully revised and updated second edition of<i> First Farmers</i> examines the origins of food production across the world and documents the expansions of agricultural populations from source regions during the past 12,000 years. It commences with the archaeological records from the multiple homelands of agriculture, and extends into discussions that draw on linguistic and genomic information about the human past, featuring new findings from the last ten years of research. <p>Through twelve chapters, the text examines the latest evidence and leading theories surrounding the early development of agricultural practices through data drawn from across the anthropological discipline¿primarily archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology¿to present a cohesive history of early farmer migration. Founded on the au