The twenty-eight contributors to this book show how experimental and ethnographic approaches are being used to shed new light on the process of domestication, a

The first book on the origin of clothes shows why climate change was crucial - for the origin of agriculture too.

Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as

Addressing one of the most debated revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming, this title takes a global view,

Rapid and knowledge-based agricultural origins and plant domestication in the Neolithic Near East gave rise to Western civilizations.