Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction / REED, CHARLES A. -- SECTION ONE General Principles -- The Origins of Agriculture: Prologue / REED, CHARLES A. -- The Earliest Farming: Demography as Cause and Consequence / BRONSON, BENNET -- The Concept of Environmental Determinism in Cultural Evolution / WAGNER, PHILIP L. -- SECTION TWO Worldwide Concepts -- Cultural Evolution in the Old World and the New, Leading to the Beginnings and Spread of Agriculture / CALDWELL, JOSEPH R. -- A Hypothesis Suggesting a Single Origin of Agriculture / CARTER, GEORGE F. -- Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru / COHEN, MARK N. -- Alternative Pathways Toward Agriculture / HARRIS, DAVID R. -- Zoological Considerations on the Origins of Farming and Domestication / HERRE, WOLF / RÖHRS, MANFRED -- Environmental Change and the Origin of Agriculture in the Old and New Worlds / WRIGHT, HERBERT E. JR. -- SECTION THREE The Beginnings of Agriculture in the Old World -- A Priori Models and Thai Prehistory: A Reconsideration of the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southeastern Asia / GORMAN, CHESTER -- The Origins of Cereal Agriculture in the Old World / HARLAN, JACK R. -- Economic Change in Prehistoric Thailand / HIGHAM, CHARLES F. W. -- The Indigenous Origins of Chinese Agriculture / HO, PING-TI -- Pre-Agricultural Tools for the Preparation of Foods in the Old World / KRAYBILL, NANCY -- Man, Domestication, and Culture in Southwestern Asia / REDMAN, CHARLES L. -- A Model for the Origin of Agriculture in the Near East / REED, CHARLES A. -- Changing Economy in Ancient India -- The Dynamics of Agricultural Origins in Palestine: A Theoretical Model / HASSAN, FEKRI A. -- SECTION FOUR The Beginnings of Agriculture in the New World -- The Origin of Zea mays / BEADLE, GEORGE W. -- Why Didn't the American Indians Domesticate Sheep? / CARR, CHRISTOPHER -- The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World / CARTER, GEORGE F. -- Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd: Spinden Revisited, or a Unitary Model for the Emergence of Agriculture in the New World / LATHRAP, DONALD W. -- The Beginning of Agriculture in Central Peru / MacNEISH, RICHARD S. -- Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics / PICKERSGILL, BARBARA / HEISER, CHARLES B. JR. -- Animal Domestication in the Anaes / WING, ELIZABETH S. -- Native Plant Husbandry North of Mexico / YARNELL,