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Climatic fluctuations and early farming in west and east Asia
Current anthropology • 52 • Published In 2011 • Pages: s175-s193
By: Bar-Yosef, Ofer.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author presents a model for the origins of an economic system based on agriculture by examining early cultivation in both The Levant and North China, and explores the model with data on climate change, sedentism, and food procurement.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- Climate
- Comparative evidence
- Sociocultural trends
- Cereal agriculture
- Settlement patterns
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yellow River Early Neolithic
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 20000-7000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North China; The Levant
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Ofer Bar-Yosef
- Includes bibliographical references (p. s188-s193)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 63000576
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yellow River Early Neolithic