Rethinking agriculture; archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives.9781598742602 Rethinking agriculture; archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives. Ed. by Tim Denham Denham is a surname, and may refer to:
Left Coast Press 2007 468 pages $99.00 Hardcover One world archaeology archaeology (ärkēŏl`əjē) [Gr.,=study of beginnings], a branch of anthropology that seeks to document and explain continuity and change and similarities and differences among human cultures. series; 51 CC79 Derived from a session at the World Archeological Congress (2003), this volume questions the relevance of concepts and models from Eurasian case studies applied to the development of early agriculture in the under-studied regions of Southeast Asian/ Pacific islands, the Americas, and African tropics tropics, also called tropical zone or torrid zone, all the land and water of the earth situated between the Tropic of Cancer at lat. 23 1-2°N and the Tropic of Capricorn at lat. 23 1-2°S. . In 21 chapters, Denham (geography and environmental science, Monash U., Australia) and international contributors in related disciplines discuss the implications of new research for the origins of agriculture in these regions. Conceptual issues discussed include problems with domestication-based definitions of agriculture, diffusion diffusion, in chemistry, the spontaneous migration of substances from regions where their concentration is high to regions where their concentration is low. Diffusion is important in many life processes. of practices, and the need to understand their social contexts. Methodological issues treat linking indicators (e.g., plant materials and linguistic evidence) with practices, and tracing regional chronologies. Illustrations feature study sites and artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. . ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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