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Domestication, conservation, and use of animal resources
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ISBN: 0444420681 9780444420688 Year: 1983 Volume: 1 Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier,

The first steps of animal domestication : new archaeozoological approches : proceedings of the 9th conference of the international council of archaezoology, Durham, August 2002
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ISBN: 9781842171219 1842171216 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books,


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Animal farming : the story behind the livestock industry
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ISBN: 9789086863198 9789086868674 Year: 2018 Publisher: Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers,

Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture
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ISBN: 1282759434 9786612759437 0520932455 1598759175 9780520932456 1423752686 9781423752684 9781598759174 9780520246478 0520246470 9781282759435 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions in human history: the origins of agriculture. Carefully balancing theory and detailed empirical study, and drawing from a series of ethnographic and archaeological case studies from eleven locations-including North and South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, the Near East, Africa, and the Pacific-the contributors to this volume examine the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and herding using a broad set of analytical models and concepts. These include diet breadth, central place foraging, ideal free distribution, discounting, risk sensitivity, population ecology, and costly signaling. An introductory chapter both charts the basics of the theory and notes areas of rapid advance in our understanding of how human subsistence systems evolve. Two concluding chapters by senior archaeologists reflect on the potential for human behavioral ecology to explain domestication and the transition from foraging to farming.

Documenting domestication
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ISBN: 1282358936 1423789652 9786612358937 0520932420 1601293828 9780520932425 9781423789659 9781601293824 0520246381 9780520246386 9780520246386 0520246381 9781282358935 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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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 to consider a wide variety of archaeological and genetic approaches to tracing the origin and dispersal of domesticates. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in this quickly changing field as well as reviews of recent findings on specific crop and livestock species in the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa. Offering a unique global perspective, it explores common challenges and potential avenues for future progress in documenting domestication.

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Evolution. --- Crops, Agricultural --- Archaeology. --- Adaptation, Biological --- Animals, Domestic --- Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Domestic animals --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Plants, Cultivated --- Archaeobotanical assemblages --- Archaeobotanical material --- Archaeobotanical remains --- Archaeobotany --- Archaeological plant remains --- Archaeology, Botanical --- Assemblages, Archaeobotanical --- Botanical archaeology --- Botany in archaeology --- Material, Archaeobotanical --- Phytoarchaeology --- Remains, Archaeobotanical --- Remains, Plant (Archaeology) --- Remains, Vegetal (Archaeology) --- Vegetal remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Paleobotany --- Anthracology --- Plant genetics --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Animal genetics --- Archeology --- Bioarchaeology --- genetics. --- Genetics. --- Methodology --- Evolution --- Genetics --- genetics --- Plantes cultivées --- Restes de plantes (Archéologie) --- Animaux domestiques --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Génétique --- Adaptation, Biological - genetics. --- agriculture. --- andes. --- animal domestication. --- anthropology. --- archaeology. --- banana. --- camelids. --- cassava. --- cattle. --- chives. --- domestic pets. --- donkeys. --- farming. --- fertile crescent. --- foraging. --- goats. --- herbs. --- history. --- horses. --- human behavior. --- hunter gatherer. --- indigenous culture. --- indigenous people. --- maize. --- mesopotamia. --- molecular biology. --- natural world. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- olives. --- pig. --- plant domestication. --- science. --- sheep. --- social development. --- social history. --- squash. --- starch grain. --- tropical america. --- tubers.

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