First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world.

• Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years
  
• Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture
  
• Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes
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The latest addition to Europa's highly praised and valued "Regional Surveys of the World" series, "South Asia 2005" provides an in-depth library of information on the countries and territories of the region.
Exhaustively researched by Europa's experienced editorial team, this title includes a vast range of up-to-date economic, political and statistical data. Combining impartial analysis with facts and figures, "South Asia 2005" provides a unique overall perspective on this increasingly important region.
The book is divided into three sections:
A General Survey
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Linguistic diversity is one of the most puzzling and challenging features of humankind. Why are there some six thousand different languages spoken in the world today? Why are some, like Chinese or English, spoken by millions over vast territories, while others are restricted to just a few thousand speakers in a limited area? The farming/language dispersal hypothesis makes the radical and controversial proposal that the present-day distributions of many of the world's languages and language families can be traced back to the early developments and dispersals of farming from the several nuclear...

First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world.

• Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years
  
• Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture
  
• Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes
  ...