Contents

List of figures xi

List of maps xxi

List of tables xxiii

List of contributors xxv

Preface xxvii

i ∙ Introduction: a world with agriculture ι

GRAEME BARKER AND CANDICE GOUCHER

2 ∙ Archaeogenetics 26

MARIA PALA, PEDRO SOARES, GYANESHWER CHAUBEY, AND MARTIN

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3 ∙ Agricultural origins: what linguistic evidence reveals 55 CHRISTOPHER EHRET

4 ∙ What did agriculture do for us? The bioarchaeology of health and diet CHARLOTTE ROBERTS

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5 ∙ Communities 124

AMY BOGAARD

6 ∙ Pastoralism 161

ALAN K. OUTRAM

7 ∙ Agriculture and urbanism 186

DAPHNE E. GALLAGHER AND RODERICK j. MCINTOSH

8 ∙ Early agriculture in Southwest Asia 210

ALAN H. SIMMoNS

9 ∙ 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan 243

Gary o. Rollefson

10 ∙ Early agriculture in South Asia 261

ELEANoR SiNGWELL-BANHAM, CAMERoN A. PEtRIE, ANd doRIAN q.fuller

11 ∙ Mehrgarh, Pakistan 289

CAMERoN A. PEtRIE

12 ∙ Early agriculture in China 310

XINYI LIU, doRIAN q. FULLER, ANd MARtINjoNES

13 ∙ Xinglonggou, China 335

XINYI LIU, ZHIjUN ZHAo, ANd GUoXIANG LIU

14 ∙ EarlyagricultureinJapan 353 simon saner ANd kEN'iCHi yano

15 ∙ The Nara basin paddies, Japan 387 kEN'iCHi okAdA (tRANSLAtEd bY SIMoN SANER)

16 ∙ Early agriculture in Southeast Asia and the Pacific 411

HUW bARtoN

17 ∙ Swamp cultivators at Kuk, New Guinea 445

tIM dENHAM

18 ∙ Early agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa to c. 500 ce 472

PAUL j. LANE

19 ∙ The Tichitt tradition in the West African Sahel 499 kEVIN C. MACdoNALd

20 ∙ Early agriculture in the Americas 514

dEboRAH M. PEARSALL

21 ∙ Nanchoc valley, Peru 539

TOM D. DILLEHAY

22 ∙ Early agricultural society in Europe 555

ALASDAIR WHITTLE

23 ∙ Pioneer farmers at Brzesc Kujawski, Poland 589

PETER BOGUCKI AND RYSZARD GRYGIEL

Index 612