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The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage Hardcover - 1995
by Harlan, Jack Rodney
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- Title The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage
- Author Harlan, Jack Rodney
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1995-09-29
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5D4WH5000H8K_ns
- ISBN 9780521401128 / 0521401127
- Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.26 x 0.76 in (23.50 x 15.90 x 1.93 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Crops - History, Plant remains (Archaeology)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94042948
- Dewey Decimal Code 630.9
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From the rear cover
All civilisations, ancient and modern, are founded on agriculture. In this fascinating account of one of the most fundamental aspects of humankind's march from prehistory to the present day, the author considers the evidence for the origin and evolution of agriculture in various parts of the world and presents a balanced view based on the archaeology, botany, genetics, ecology and anthropology of domesticates and their wild relatives. The basic agricultural systems, which emerged from areas yielding traces of the earliest plant and animal domestication, are described and their drastic modification in recent times considered. In a concluding chapter the present situation is reviewed, and the possible risk to a system that now relies on a relatively small number of species to supply the majority of our food is discussed.