The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture

Jacques (Institut de France, Paris) Cauvin

Cambridge University Press, 2000

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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
9780521651356
ISBN-10
0521651352
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
Publication date
2000-07-27
Pages
288
Dimensions
262x187x22
Weight
696