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Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture

by Douglas J. Kennett, Bruce Winterhalder

This volume uses human behavioural ecology to explore the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. Drawing on global ethnographic and archaeological case studies, it analyses how human subsistence systems evolved.

Accession 4381 ISBN 0520246470 Publisher University of California Press
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