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| Lancelotti, Carla; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group; Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; carla.lancelotti@upf.edu; Zurro, Debora; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; debora@imf.csic.es; Whitehouse, Nicki J.; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK; nicola.whitehouse@plymouth.ac.uk; Kramer, Karen L.; Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; karen.kramer@anthro.utah.edu; Madella, Marco; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group; Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; ICREA, Barcelona, Spain; marco.madella@icrea.cat; Greaves, Russell D.; Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; russell.greaves@anthro.utah.edu. |
| The origins of agriculture and the shift from hunting and gathering to committed agriculture is regarded as one of the major transitions in human history. Archeologists and anthropologists have invested significant efforts in explaining the origins of agriculture. A period of gathering intensification and experimentation and pursuing a mixed economic strategy seems the most plausible explanation for the transition to agriculture and provides an approach to study a process in which several nonlinear processes may have played a role. However, the mechanisms underlying the transition to full agriculture are not completely clear. This is partly due to the nature of the archeological record, which registers a practice only once it has become clearly... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: ABM; Resources; Social-ecological dynamics; Subsistence strategies; Transition to agriculture. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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