Title: Changing natures : hunter-gatherers, first farmers and the modern world /
Authors: Finlayson, Bill.; Warren, Graeme.
Publisher: Duckworth,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Hunting and gathering societies Europe.; Hunting and gathering societies Middle East.; Social archaeology Europe.; Social archaeology Middle East.; Agriculture Europe History; Agriculture Middle East History; Social change Europe History; Social change Middle East History
Abstract: This book focuses on two themes central to creating a rounded understanding of the transition: our understandings of hunter-gatherer diversity and change over time, with emphasis on the adoption of agriculture; and the relationships between our understandings of the modern world, am ourselves, and the models we impose on prehistory. The broad geographical perspective adopted here allows important comparisons to be made between two primary study areas, the Near East and Europe. --Book Jacket.
Contents: 1. What is a hunter-gatherer? -- 2. Who do you think you are? -- 3. Farming and the origins of villages -- 4. Progressing, unequally, to agriculture -- 5. Neolithic mind -- 6. Constructing histories.