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"First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies" offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. This book: uses data from archeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years; examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture; focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes; and, covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: First Farmers - The Origins of Agricultural Societies
• Author: Peter Bellwood
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780631205661
• ISBN: 0631205667
• ID: 01330924
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 672 g
• Dimensions: 245 × 173 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. October 2004

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