Southwest and Central Asia
Author : Christopher L. Salter
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780547485904
Author : Christopher L. Salter
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780547485904
Author : Felicia Law
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404838929
Features maps and information about the countries, geography, ecology, population, customs, transportation, and economy of Central and Southwestern Asia.
Author : Holt McDougal
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2010-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547484877
Author : Felicia Law
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Asia
ISBN : 1404838848
Features maps and information about the countries, geography, ecology, population, customs, transportation, and economy of Central and Southwestern Asia.
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Page : 21864 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
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Author : Christopher L. Salter
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780030436147
Author : Christopher L. Salter
Publisher : Holt Rinehart & Winston
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780030436147
Author : CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2019
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Author : Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : David R. Harris
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1934536512
In Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia, archaeologist David R. Harris addresses questions of when, how, and why agriculture and settled village life began east of the Caspian Sea. The book describes and assesses evidence from archaeological investigations in Turkmenistan and adjacent parts of Iran, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan in relation to present and past environmental conditions and genetic and archaeological data on the ancestry of the crops and domestic animals of the Neolithic period. It includes accounts of previous research on the prehistoric archaeology of the region and reports the results of a recent environmental-archaeological project undertaken by British, Russian, and Turkmen archaeologists in Turkmenistan, principally at the early Neolithic site of Jeitun (Djeitun) on the southern edge of the Karakum desert. This project has demonstrated unequivocally that agropastoralists who cultivated barley and wheat, raised goats and sheep, hunted wild animals, made stone tools and pottery, and lived in small mudbrick settlements were present in southern Turkmenistan by 7,000 years ago (c. 6,000 BCE calibrated), where they came into contact with hunter-gatherers of the "Keltiminar Culture." It is possible that barley and goats were domesticated locally, but the available archaeological and genetic evidence leads to the conclusion that all or most of the elements of the Neolithic "Jeitun Culture" spread to the region from farther west by a process of demic or cultural diffusion that broadly parallels the spread of Neolithic agropastoralism from southwest Asia into Europe. By synthesizing for the first time what is currently known about the origins of agriculture in a large part of Central Asia, between the more fully investigated regions of southwest Asia and China, this book makes a unique contribution to the worldwide literature on transitions from hunting and gathering to agriculture.