Forest Farmers and Stockherders: Early Agriculture and Its Consequences in North-Central Europe

by Peter Bogucki

Book Overview

Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, Forest Farmers and Stockherders explores the single most radical transformation in all European prehistory - the growth of a food-producing economy in the period 5000-3000 BC. Dr Bogucki seeks to develop a coherent view of the introduction of food production to north-central Europe, identifying new environmental zones being exploited for the first time and new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521103606
• ISBN13: 9780521103602
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"