ACLS Humanities E-Book: The food crisis in prehistory: overpopulation and the origins of agriculture

The food crisis in prehistory: overpopulation and the origins of agriculture

Cohen, Mark Nathan.

Year: 1977.

Publisher: Yale University Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

1 The Problem of Agricultural Origins

2 The Theory of Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture

3 The Archaeological Measurement of Population Growth and Population Pressure

4 The Case for the Old World

5 The New World: North and Middle America

6 The New World: South America

7 Summary and Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

The food crisis in prehistory : overpopulation and the origins of agriculture Mark Nathan Cohen.

Author:

Cohen, Mark Nathan

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2008
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The food crisis in prehistory : overpopulation and the origins of agriculture Mark Nathan Cohen.
Cohen, Mark Nathan
New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1977.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03085

Subject Headings:

• Prehistoric peoples -- Food
• Prehistoric peoples -- Population
• Agriculture -- Origin
• Food supply -- History

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