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Title:

Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture / edited by Douglas J. Kennett and Bruce Winterhalder.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xiii, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Agriculture--Origin.
Agriculture, Prehistoric.
Human behavior.
Human ecology.
Human evolution.
Agriculture--Origines.
Agriculture préhistorique.
Comportement humain.
Écologie humaine.
Homme--Évolution.
Archeologische vondsten.
Paleo-ecologie.
Evolutie.
Neolithicum.

Other Authors:

Kennett, Douglas J.
Winterhalder, Bruce.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-380) and index.

Contents:

Behavioral ecology and the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture / Bruce Winterhalder and Douglas J. Kennett -- A future discounting explanation for the persistence of a mixed foraging-horticulture strategy among the Mikea of Madagascar / Bram Tucker -- Central place foraging and food production on the Cumberland Plateau, Eastern Kentucky / Kristen J. Gremillion -- Aspects of optimization and risk during the early agricultural period in southeastern Arizona / Michael W. Diehl and Jennifer A. Waters -- A formal model for predicting agriculture among the Fremont / K. Renee Barlow -- An ecological model for the origins of maize-based food production on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico / Douglas J. Kennett, Barbara Voorhies, and Dean Martorana -- The origins of plant cultivation and domestication in the neotropics: a behavioral ecological perspective / Dolores R. Piperno -- Costly signaling, the sexual division of labor, and plant and animal domestication in the Andean highlands / Mark Aldenderfer -- Human behavioral ecology, domestic animals, and land use during the transition to agriculture in Valencia, eastern Spain / Sarah B. McClure, Michael A. Jochim and C. Michael Barton -- Breaking the rain barrier and the tropical spread of near eastern agriculture into southern Arabia / Joy McCorriston -- The emergence of agriculture in New Guinea: a model of continuity from pre-existing foraging practices / Tim Denham and Huw Barton -- The ideal free distribution, food production and the colonization of Oceania / Douglas Kennett, Atholl Anderson, and Bruce Winterhalder -- Human behavioral ecology and the transition to food production / Bruce D. Smith -- Agriculture, archaeology, and human behavioral ecology / Robert Bettinger.

Series:

Origins of human behavior and culture ; 1

ISBN:

9780520246478 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520246470 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005011959

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)