Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began
Colin Tudge overturns the traditional view that farming began in the Middle East 10,000 years ago, quickly led to the Neolithic farming revolution, and ended the hunting-gathering lifestyle. Agriculture in some form had been practiced for thousands of years before that, Tudge argues. Neolithic...
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Colin Tudge overturns the traditional view that farming began in the Middle East 10,000 years ago, quickly led to the Neolithic farming revolution, and ended the hunting-gathering lifestyle. Agriculture in some form had been practiced for thousands of years before that, Tudge argues. Neolithic farming was not the beginning of agriculture but the beginning of agriculture on a large scale, in one place, with refined tools.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780300080247 (0300080247)
Publish date: October 11th 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
This book is a really quick read but it has lots of ideas that I really enjoyed hearing. It's not like it posits anything breathtaking or mind-boggling, it's just a short journey from the 'conventional wisdom' on agriculture, but it was well written and interesting to read!
This is a short monograph (50 pages) that synopsizes Colin Tudge's argument that pre-Neolithic Revolution humans (and, indeed, hominids in general) have been modifying their environment for hundreds of millennia, and this includes "farming," of which Tudge identifies three types:1. Horticulture: Or,...
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