Examines the question of why foragers became farmers.

Prehistoric Korea may offer insights into the social interactions involved in crop acquisition and the human modification of local landscapes to accommodate a new agrarian way of life.

The article discusses mobility in relation to economic strategies and social networks, the documentation of relationships between mobile people such as foragers and more sedentary people such as farmers in South Asia during the first few millennia.

New work in archaeology, palaeoecology, palynology and anthropology is suggesting that foraging/farming transitions in Southeast Asia were far more complex than previously thought.

Introduction to a symposium on the origins of common agriculture. Includes individuals working in most of the places where farming began, organized by chronology and geography.

Examines the impact of technology on the breakdown of cooperative foraging communities and the transition from foraging to agriculture. The Tehuacan Valley in Mexico provides empirical support for the theory.

The Fremont complex is composed of farmers and foragers who occupied the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin region of western North America from about 2100 to 500 years ago. The complex reflects a mosaic of behaviors including full-time farmers, full-time foragers, part-time farmer/foragers who seasonally switched modes of production, farmers who switched to full-time foraging, and foragers who switched to full-time farming.

Reconstructions of the Equatorial forest in Central Africa fuel the debate on whether hunter-gatherers at the end of the Pleistocene were capable of living in or off the forest prior to the advent of agriculture.

Documentation of early cultivation of squash, manioc, and maize provides confirmation that the Llanos de Moxos is a hotspot for early plant cultivation.

Archaeological evidence from Cerro Juanaquena, a residential complex with 8 kilometers of terrace walls in northwestern Mexico, combined with other recent data, implies that highly variable combinations of population aggregation, agricultural dependence, and degrees of sedentism were present during the time maize was being introduced into the American Southwest.