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The Cambridge World History, edited by Graeme Barker, Candice Goucher, Volume 2

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The Cambridge World History

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edited by Graeme Barker, Candice Goucher

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The development of agriculture has often been described as the most important change in all of human history. Volume 2 of The Cambridge World History explores the origins and impact of agriculture and agricultural communities, and also discusses issues associated with pastoralism and hunter-fisher-gatherer economies. To capture the patterns of this key change across the globe, the volume uses an expanded timeframe from 12,000 BCE-500 CE, beginning with the Neolithic and continuing into later periods. Scholars from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, historical linguistics, biology, anthropology, and history, trace common developments in the more complex social structures and cultural forms that agriculture enabled, such as sedentary villages and more elaborate foodways, and then present a series of regional overviews accompanied by detailed case studies from many different parts of the world, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Europe--, Provided by Publisher

Introduction: a world with agriculture by Graeme Barker and Candice Goucher -- Archaeogenetics by Maria Pala, Pedro Soares, Gyaneshwer Chaubey and Martin B. Richards -- Agricultural origins: what linguistic evidence reveals by Christopher Ehret -- What did agriculture do for us? The bioarchaeology of health and diet by Charlotte Roberts -- Communities by Amy Bogaard -- Pastoralism by Alan K. Outram -- Agriculture and urbanism by Daphne E. Gallagher and Roderick J. McIntosh -- Early agriculture in Southwest Asia by Alan H. Simmons -- 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan by Gary O. Rollefson -- Early agriculture in South Asia by Eleanor Kingwell-Banham, Cameron A. Petrie and Dorian Q. Fuller -- Mehrgarh, Pakistan by Cameron A. Petrie -- Early agriculture in China by Xinyi Liu, Dorian Q. Fuller and Martin Jones -- Xinglonggou, China by Xinyi Liu Zhijun Zhao and Guoxiang Liu -- Early agriculture in Japan by Simon Kaner and Ken'ichi Yano -- The Nara basin paddies, Japan by Ken'ichi Okada and Simon Kaner -- Early agriculture in Southeast Asia and the Pacific by Huw Barton -- Swamp cultivators at Kuk, New Guinea by Tim Denham -- Early agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa to c. 500 CE by Paul J. Lane -- The Tichitt tradition in the West African Sahel by Kevin C. MacDonald -- Early agriculture in the Americas by Deborah M. Pearsall -- Nanchoc valley, Peru by Tom D. Dillehay -- Early agricultural society in Europe by Alasdair Whittle -- Pioneer farmers at Brześć Kujawski, Poland by Peter Bogucki and Ryszard Grygiel