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People, Pots, Words and Genes: Multiple sources and recon-structions of the transition to food production in eastern Africa

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dc.contributor.authorLane, Paul J.
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-09T10:22:26Z
dc.date.available2017-06-09T10:22:26Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis chapter provides a review of the currently available archaeological evidence relating to the transition to food production in eastern Africa, and some of the supporting linguistic and genetic evidence. In broad terms, livestock herding preceded crop cultivation in the region, with an initial emphasis on sheep and goats, commencing around 4500 to 5000 years ago. By around 3000 years ago, full-blown pastoralist societies with an emphasis on cattle herding occupied much of the savannah areas. From ca. 2500 year ago, metal using farming communities, practicing hoe cultivation of roots crops and cereals were also present, interacting with both pastoralist and autochthonous hunting-gathering-fishing communities. These interactions gave rise to diverse ethnic mosaic, alongside extensive genetic and linguistic exchanges.it_IT
dc.identifier.citationPaul J. Lane, "People, Pots, Words and Genes: Multiple sources and recon-structions of the transition to food production in eastern Africa", in: "Cultural and Linguistic Transition explored. Proceedings of the ATrA closing workshop Trieste, May 25-26, 2016", Ilaria Micheli (ed.), Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2017, pp. 60-77it_IT
dc.identifier.eisbn978-88-8303-822-8
dc.identifier.isbn978-88-8303-821-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10077/14292
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.publisherEUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
dc.subjectEarly Farming and Herdingit_IT
dc.subjectEast Africait_IT
dc.subjectArchaeologyit_IT
dc.subjectHistorical Linguisticsit_IT
dc.subjectPopulation Geneticsit_IT
dc.titlePeople, Pots, Words and Genes: Multiple sources and recon-structions of the transition to food production in eastern Africait_IT
dc.typeBook Chapter
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