THE
ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF AGRICULTURE AND PASTORALISM IN EURASIA
Edited
by Professor David Harris
This
book came into being following a three day conference at the
Institute of Archaeology in London in September 1993 where 23
speakers presented papers on a wide range of subjects covering,
epidemiology, genetics, geography, linguistics, and zoology.
As such it gathers together specialists within a multidisciplinary
scientific inquiry into this important subject. Expanded, revised
and edited by Professor David Harris the contributors to the
29 chapters are leading names within their professions.
The ability
to identify and accurately date a wide range of plant and bone
remains, and reach reliable conclusions on the domestication
of wild seeds and animals, provides examples of the many related
sciences, which now allow history to be reconstructed in great
detail.
It is with
the assistance of these sciences that we can place more accurately
the people and events recorded within the written and oral records
that still exist.
We can do
no more than highly recommend this book as a definitive source
of current research progress and let the reader draw their own
conclusions from the great store and wide range of knowledge
provided.This book will highlight the fact that practical farming
knowledge and skills will provide today's research scientists
and students on these subjects with an essential discipline.
We believe
that in the basic thesis within The Genius of the Few and
The Shining Ones is well supported by this book. The
records relating to climatic change and the proven glacial refuge
in the Southern Lebanon for many of the important plants trees
and animals, which would have allowed the subsequent agricultural
revolution to unfold, are of particular interest. The need for
irrigation is an interesting feature of the Kharsag (Eden) site,
and it would not be out of place to suggest with hindsight that
highly advanced skills were required in selecting this ideal
elevated location at that moment in time.
We believe
that when the concepts presented within all three books are
related to each other a single more reliable and connected story
unfolds. We believe we have gathered together the key evidence
supporting the delivery of an existing farming package and confirmation
of a 'Biblical' diffusion from Southern Lebanon, from perhaps
as early as 8,750 BC, if the recalibration of old dating methods
and recent dating techniques ultimately prove accurate.
Over time
it will be necessary for further contributions to be made by
others to prove or disprove this basic thesis. Fortunately there
are many other sources available yet to be fully explored, and
a great deal of old evidence, which we hope to recover and re-present
in our collective search to piece together and confirm the more
detailed record.
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