Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia: An Environmental-Archaeological Study

by David R. Harris

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934536164
• ISBN13: 9781934536162
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 11.1"