Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 394 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Origins of human behavior and culture ; 1 Origins of human behavior and culture ; 1.
Subject:	Agriculture -- Origin. Agriculture, Prehistoric. Human behavior. Human ecology. Human evolution. Agriculture -- Origin. Agriculture, Prehistoric. Human behavior. Human ecology. Human evolution. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11141395

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Other authors / contributors:	Kennett, Douglas J., editor. Winterhalder, Bruce, editor.
ISBN:	9780520932456 0520932455 1423752686 9781423752684 1598759175 9781598759174 9780520246478 0520246470 1282759434 9781282759435
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006 0520246470

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1. Behavioral Ecology and the Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Agriculture; 2. A Future Discounting Explanation for the Persistence of a Mixed Foraging-Horticulture Strategy among the Mikea of Madagascar; 3. Central Place Foraging and Food Production on the Cumberland Plateau, Eastern Kentucky; 4. Aspects of Optimization and Risk During the Early Agricultural Period in Southeastern Arizona; 5. A Formal Model for Predicting Agriculture among the Fremont.

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