The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? 1st Edition by Graeme Barker (PDF)

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The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Against current orthodoxy, Barker develops a strong case for the development of agricultural systems in many areas as transformations in the life-ways of the indigenous forager societies, and argues that these were as much changes in social norms and ideologies as in ways of obtaining food. With a large number of helpful line drawings and photographs as well as a comprehensive bibliography, this authoritative study will appeal to a wide general readership as well as to specialists in a variety of fields.

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⭐This is a thorough, well-researched and clearly argued book about the origins of agriculture. The author has collected exhaustive references about agriculture all over the world. He presents a nuanced argument for the beginnings of agriculture that includes the social dynamics for why people elected to leave their foraging way of life.I am a professional archaeologist, but I believe that a careful non-specialist reader would find this book quite informative. I am also happy to see it is now available in paperback and as a Kindle book. I managed to get a hold of it half price because we were at a conference where sometimes you can obtain the display copies cheaper.Even if you paid full price for it, the book is worth every penny.

⭐Ouvrage universitaire sur la naissance des diverses pratiques agricoles. Le premier chapitre est consacré à l’évocation des théories sur l’origine de l’agriculture. L’auteur décrit ensuite le mode de vie des chasseurs-cueilleurs puis passe en revue les critères qui permettent de les distinguer des agriculteurs. Puis il analyse en détail les divers foyers de domestication des plantes et des animaux, en s’attardant un peu plus sur le Moyen-Orient, traditionnellement considéré comme le foyer le plus ancien. Le dernier chapitre, assez court, relate les principales explications que les chercheurs ont pu donner à la questions de savoir ce qui a poussé homo sapiens à bouleverser complètement son mode de vie en moins d’une dizaine de millénaire. L’auteur apporte sa pierre à l’édifice en se faisant le défenseur d’une théorie assez simple mais qui tient bien la route.

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