Foragers and Farmers: Population Interaction and Agricultural Expansion in Prehistoric Europe
- ISBN-10
- 0226307360
- ISBN-13
- 9780226307367
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 275
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988-11-03
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Susan A. Gregg
Description
Gregg (archaeology, Southern Ill. U.) argues that the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to settled agricultural communities in prehistoric Europe involved a wide variety of interactions for over a millennium. She considers the ecological requirements of crops and livestock, develops a computer simulation to identify an optimal farming strategy for early Neolithic populations, and models the effects that interaction with the farmers would have had on the foragers' subsistence-settlement system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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