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Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archæological Paradigms
M A Ed Zeder
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Description for Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archæological Paradigms
Hardback. Agriculture is the lever with which humans transformed the earth over the last 10,000 years and created new forms of plant and animal species that have forever altered the face of the planet. This book considers a variety of archaeological and genetic approaches to tracing the origin and dispersal of domesticates. Editor(s): Zeder, Melinda A.; Bradley, Daniel G.; Emshwiller, Eve; Smith, Bruce D. Num Pages: 375 pages, 40 b/w photographs, 120 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HD; JHM; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 287 x 222 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1248. New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms. 375 pages, 40 b/w photographs, 120 line illustrations. Editor(s): Zeder, Melinda A.; Bradley, Daniel G.; Emshwiller, Eve; Smith, Bruce D. Agriculture is the lever with which humans transformed the earth over the last 10,000 years and created new forms of plant and animal species that have forever altered the face of the planet. This book considers a variety of archaeological and genetic approaches to tracing the origin and dispersal of domesticates. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HD; JHM; TV. Dimension: 287 x 222 x 29. Weight: 1246.
Agriculture is the lever with which humans transformed the earth over the last 10,000 years and created new forms of plant and animal species that have forever altered the face of the planet. In the last decade, significant technological and methodological advances in both molecular biology and archaeology have revolutionized the study of plant and animal domestication and are reshaping our understanding of the transition from foraging to farming, one of the major turning points in human history. This groundbreaking volume for the first time brings together leading archaeologists and biologists working on the domestication of both plants and animals ... Read more
Agriculture is the lever with which humans transformed the earth over the last 10,000 years and created new forms of plant and animal species that have forever altered the face of the planet. In the last decade, significant technological and methodological advances in both molecular biology and archaeology have revolutionized the study of plant and animal domestication and are reshaping our understanding of the transition from foraging to farming, one of the major turning points in human history. This groundbreaking volume for the first time brings together leading archaeologists and biologists working on the domestication of both plants and animals ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
375
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
1245g
Number of Pages
375
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520246386
SKU
V9780520246386
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About M A Ed Zeder
Melinda A. Zeder and Bruce D. Smith are researchers in the Archaeobiology Program of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Daniel G. Bradley is a geneticist at Trinity College, Dublin. Eve Emshwiller is an ethnobotanist in the Botany Department at The Field Museum in Chicago. Zeder is the author of Feeding Cities: Specialized Animal Economy in the Ancient Near ... Read more
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