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By Timothy P Denham,José Iriarte,Luc Vrydaghs

even if the necessity to examine agriculture in numerous components of the area on its “own phrases” has lengthy been famous and re-affirmed, an inclination persists to guage agriculture around the globe utilizing recommendations, traces of facts and strategies derived from Eurasian study. although, researchers operating in several areas have gotten more and more conscious of basic variations within the nature of, and strategies hired to check, agriculture and plant exploitation practices some time past. Contributions to this quantity reconsider agriculture, no matter if when it comes to present neighborhood chronologies, by way of thoughts hired, or when it comes to the techniques that body our interpretations. This quantity highlights new archaeological and ethnoarchaeological learn on early agriculture in understudied non-Eurasian areas, together with Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Americas and Africa, to offer a extra balanced view of the origins and improvement of agricultural practices round the globe.

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