“First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies” giver indsigt i de tidlige landbrugssamfunds oprindelse og historie globalt. Bogen anvender data fra arkæologi, sprogvidenskab og biologisk antropologi til at undersøge landbrugets udvikling de sidste 12.000 år og fokuserer på landbrugets oprindelse og spredning fra flere regioner.
Titel på undersøgelse:
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies.
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“The First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies” by Peter Bellwood (available on Amazon) chronicles the Neolithic emergence of agriculture, beginning around 10,000 BCE in the Fertile Crescent, where hunter-gatherers tamed wheat, barley, and livestock like sheep. Driven by climate shifts and population growth, this revolution spawned settled villages—Jericho by 9400 BCE—spreading unevenly to Europe, Asia, and beyond over millennia. Bellwood details how polished tools, pottery, and irrigation boosted surpluses, fostering social complexity and early cities like Çatalhöyük, though diets often worsened. Drawing on archaeology and genetics, he argues farming dispersed via migration and adoption, varying by region—swift in fertile zones, lagging elsewhere. This transformative shift, marked by innovation and challenge, rewove human life from nomadic threads into sedentary tapestries, setting the stage for civilization’s rise, a legacy etched in bones and ruins.