The Sustainability and Development of Ancient Economies : Analysis and Examples (Paperback)

1. An Overview of Our Perspectives on the Economic Development and Sustainability of Ancient Societies  PART I: ECONOMICS OF HUNTING AND GATHERING SOCIETIES  2.Stages of Early Economic Development: Economic Evolution and the Diversity of Societies  3. Traditional Economies of Australian Aborigines ? Their Sustainability, Desirability and Sahlins’ Hypothesis  4. The Sustainability and Economic Development Options of Foragers: New Economic Analysis  5. The Lengthy Endurance of Hunting and Gathering Economies  PART II: THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: THE TRANSITION TO AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AGRICULTURE  6. A Reconsideration of Theories about the Commencement of Agriculture and New Suggestions  7. Alternatives to and a Critique of Economic Optimization Theories as a Determinant of the Transition to Agriculture  8. Contemporary Thought and Childe’s Theory of Economic Development and the Agricultural Revolution  PART III: EVOLUTION OF EARLY ECONOMIES AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF AGRICULTURE  9. Analysis of Why Some Agrarian Societies Avoided the Malthusian Trap and Developed  10. Economic and Ecological Reasons Why the Silesian Un?tice Population Disappeared  11. The Palatial Economic Development of Minoan and Mycenaean States  12. Barter and the Origins of Money: Insights from the Ancient Palatial Economies of Mesopotamia and Egypt  13. Phoenicia: Its Economic Development Before its use of Coinage