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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 561-586Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.0950-0804.2005.00259.x
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agriculture; hunting-gathering; Neolithic Revolution; transition
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This article reviews the main theories about the prehistoric shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture. The transition, also known as the Neolithic Revolution, was ultimately necessary to the rise of modern civilization by creating the foundation for the later process of industrialization and sustained economic growth. The article provides a brief historical survey of the leading hypotheses concerning the rise of agriculture proposed in the archaeological and anthropological literature. It then turns to a more detailed review of the theories put forth in the economic literature.
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