Agricultural Origins and Dispersals: The Domestication of Animals and Foodstuffs

Description

Author: Sauer, Carl O. (1889-1975)

Publisher: M.I.T. University Press

Pub Date: 1970  (Second edition, Second paperback printing)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears.  Previous owner’s stamp on all three text blocks, and written on inside front cover.  Upper front cover corner has approx. 1/2″ crease.  Scuffing to front and rear covers.  Corner and edge wear.

Notes: As opposed to Boserup’s Theory (population growth drives agricultural change: see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/the-conditions-of-agricultural-growth-the-economics-of-agrarian-change-under-population-pressure/), Sauer contends that early farmers had enough leisure time to experiment with farming and domestication–i.e., agriculture and animal domestication did not originate from a shortage of food.