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First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

Peter Bellwood

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 Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan

HistoryWorld History · medium confidenceWorld History81 signalsLlm Classifier: World History -> World HistoryGoogle Books: Social Science -> Society & CultureKeyword Classifier: Technology -> TechnologyTechnology, Computing & AIFood, Agriculture & LandAfrica & the African DiasporaAsia & the Pacific

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Archaeology and Ancient History2005WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Middle East90%
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    • central Africa70%
    • China65%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

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    Agriculture emerged through multiple primary origins, and archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology are used to explain agricultural origins and dispersals from key regions.

    Model confidence 55%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    55 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.