Ebook: Neolithic migrations: food production and population expansion

In: Bellwood P. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Volume 1: Prehistory. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — pp. 79-86.This chapter introduces the development of food production amongst Holocene human societies and discusses the likely repercussions in terms of population growth and territorial expansion, as visible in the archaeological record. It leads into the following chapter, on the expansions of language families in prehistoric times.