Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 270 Seiten)
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Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781108642491
Uniform Title:
Biyut ha-tsemaḥ̣im u-reshit ha-ḥ̣aḳla'ut ba-Mizraḥ ha-Ḳarov
Content:
The Agricultural Revolution - including the domestication of plants and animals in the Near East - that occurred 10,500 years ago ended millions of years of human existence in small, mobile, egalitarian communities of hunters-gatherers. This Neolithic transformation led to the formation of sedentary communities that produced crops such as wheat, barley, peas, lentils, chickpeas and flax and domesticated range of livestock, including goats, sheep, cattle and pigs. All of these plants and animals still play a major role in the contemporary global economy and nutrition. This agricultural revolution also stimulated the later development of the first urban centres. This volume examines the origins and development of plant domestication in the Ancient Near East, along with various aspects of the new Man-Nature relationship that characterizes food-producing societies. It demonstrates how the rapid, geographically localized, knowledge-based domestication of plants was a human initiative that eventually gave rise to Western civilizations and the modern human condition.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108493642
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108737708
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108493642
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781108642491
