6/29/2023 0 Comments Peter bellwood first farmersThese claims suggest Bellwood mistakes their deliberate methodological rigour and interpretative caution for blind orthodoxy.Įarly on, the author introduces us to what he sees. Each trivialises how cautiously and, yes, how laboriously archaeologists for the past half-century have been trying to document (rather than just speculate on) the hows and whys of the last 10 000 years or so of our species' post-Pleistocene history. To this reviewer, these claims appear either poorly stated or unduly provocative. PETER BELLWOOD The early farming dispersal hypothesis in current perspective, plus operational considerations regarding the origins and dispersals of. Gordon Childe's concept of the 'Neolithic revolution' because they see 'early agriculture as a very slow and laborious development for most populations' archaeologists have been working under the delusion that 'all the world's peoples been relatively immobile since their origins' and archaeologists think all of the world's peoples have 'evolved their cultural characteristics essentially by independent and in situ processes' (p. In his autobiographical preface, Peter Bellwood makes three strategic claims in the same paragraph: archaeologists have reacted against V. Oxford/Malden (MA): Blackwell 5-9 hardback 60 & 6-7 paperback 17.99. First farmers: the origins of agricultural societies. First Farmers examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture, looks at relations between hunter-gatherers and farmers, and addresses issues of agricultural adoption, the origins and dispersal histories of language families, and the dispersal histories of biological populations.
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