The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture

Jacques (Institut de France, Paris) Cauvin

Cambridge University Press, 2007

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This innovative 2000 study of the great cultural and economic changes in the Near East between 10,000 and 7,000 BC as Palaeolithic societies of hunter-gatherers gave way to village communities of Neolithic food-producers argues that the Neolithic revolution must be understood as an intellectual transformation, revealing itself in symbolic activities.

ISBN-13
9780521039086
ISBN-10
0521039088
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-08-16
Pages
288
Dimensions
244x170x16
Weight
494