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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 733 Pages. There is a store stamp inside the back cover and pages 10, 23, and 26 have some light pencil underlining. A quick thurmbing through revealed no other marks or stamps to this tight, square book. The recognition of the important specificity of times and places has led to worldwide studies of agricultural evolution. This book discusses varous world areas including Europe, the Near East, and North and South America. Contents in Five Parts: Introduction, Hypotheses to Explain the Initial Shift to agriculture, The Beginnings of Agriculdture and its Consequences in Various World Areas, The Natural Scientist Views the Beginnings of Agriculture, and The Rise of Agriculture in the Devleopment of Civilization.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Text Figures (illustrator). 1st Edition. Copyright Date: 1971 Octavo, 1971, PP.733.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed, dark green linen boards/Fine. DJ/Good; sound w/edge & surface wear & small loss to lower back. Archaeolgy. 1970s methodological case study of the total evacation of the Powers Phase (Middle Mississippi) site. 264 pgs documenting space & time evidenced by artifacts such as pottery and housing, in 6 chapters: 1, The Powers Phase; 2, The Gypsy Joint Site; 3, Description of Cultural Features & Cultural Materials; 4, Energy-Capture Analysis; 5, Spatial Patterning of Cultural Material; and 6, Five Problem Areas, followed by 13 appendices.

1971. (Trade paperback) Very good. 733pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. The covers are lightly worn with traces of tape residue and the spine is faded. "Advanced hunters and gatherers are nomadic to the extent required by the animals they hunt and the plants they collect, but they are semi-sedentary according to the seasonal life cycles of these animals and plants" - from the first chapter. Published for American Museum of Natural History. Publisher series: American Sourcebooks in Anthropology. (Anthropology, Agriculture, Anthropology, Prehistory, Social Sciences).