A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the world This fully re

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

Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.

All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agric