A holistic and comprehensive account of the nature of the transition from hunting to farming in prehistory. It addresses for the first time the main bioarchaeol

Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.

Describes how America changed its agricultural practices as a result of the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution.

In a time of great agricultural and rural change, the notion of 'multifunctionality' has remained under-theorized and poorly linked to the debates in the social