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Nimrods, Piscators, Pluckers, and Planters: The Emergence of Food Production
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The view of the first domesticates as prestige items used by accumulators to outclass their rivals explains the otherwise mystifying nature of many of thefirst domesticates, including dogs, gourds, chili peppers, and avocados.About:
This article is published in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.The article was published on 1990-03-01. It has received 373 citations till now.read more
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Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things
TL;DR: In this article, Hodder used the quote from Gibson that an affordance points both ways, to the environment and to the observer, and showed how the maintenance of walls in the Yorkshire Dales depended on expert ideas about organic foods and recent collective nostalgia for a rural way of life.
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Low-Level Food Production
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework for societies with low-level food production economies is proposed, and the issues and questions concerning these societies, both with and without domesticates, are discussed.
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Mobility/Sedentism: Concepts, Archaeological Measures, and Effects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify different forms and levels of mobility in hunter-gatherers and detect sedentism in the context of the Man the Hunter (MTH) conference.
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The Cradle of Agriculture
TL;DR: Botanical, genetic and archeological evidence is discussed suggesting that the cradle of agriculture lay within a small region of the Fertile Crescent and began in the 7th millennium B.C.
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The Natufian culture in the Levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture
TL;DR: The question of why the emergence of farming communities in the Near East was an inevitable outcome of a series of social and economic circumstances that caused the Natufian culture to be considered the threshold for this major evolutionary change is addressed.
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Willow Smoke and Dogs’ Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of adaptation is proposed to anticipate both differences in settlement-subsistence strategies and patterning in the archaeological record through a more detailed knowledge of the distribution of environmental variables.
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Paleolithic nutrition: a consideration of its nature and current implications
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Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture
TL;DR: Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the field of bioarchaeology that examines how the transition from foraging to farming affected human health and nutrition.
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Energy source, protein metabolism, and hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies
TL;DR: Experimental data indicate that although both protein and fat enhance high-protein, low-energy diets, carbohydrate is a more effective supplement than fat.