First Farmers

<i>First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies</i> offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world.<br /> <br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years<br /> </li> <li>Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture<br /> </li> <li>Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes<br /> </li> <li>Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan</li> </ul>