Europe's First Farmers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780521662031
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Prehistoric Archaeology; Origin; Archaeology; Agricultural History; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Neolithic period; History: World; Ancient - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Neolithic period--Europe; Social Science / Archaeology; Agriculture - General; Agriculture; Antiquities; Europe
First sentence: The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is arguably the most important event in human prehistory, representing a shift from foraging to farming, from food collection to food production, from wild to domestic, that sets the stage for most of the significant subsequent developments in human society.