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Hunters in Transition - 9780521109574
Un libro in lingua di Marek Zvelebil edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2009
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Hunters in Transition analyses one of the crucial events in human cultural evolution: the emergence of postglacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming. Traditionally, the advantages of settled agriculture have been assumed, and the transition to farming has been viewed in terms of the simple dispersal of early farming communities northwards across Europe. The contributors to this volume, however, adopt a fresh, more subtle approach. From a hunter-gatherer prespective, settled farming implies both advantages and disadvantages, and certainly involves organizational disruption during the period of transition and far reaching social consequences for the existing way of life.
The hunter-gatherer economy and farming shared in fact a common objective: a guaranteed food supply in a changing natural and social environment. Drawing extensively on research in eastern Europe and temperate Asia, the book argues persuasively for the essential unity of all postglacial adaptations whether leading to the dispersal of farming or to the retention and elaboration of existing hunter-gatherer strategies.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Hunters in Transition
- Sottotitolo: Mesolithic Societies of Temperate Eurasia and Their Transition to Farming
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Marek Zvelebil
- Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Collana: Cambridge Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 20 Gennaio '09
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Pagine: 194
- Dimensioni mm: 279 x 209 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0521109574
- EAN-13: 9780521109574