农业起源问题整理思考（The question of the origin of agricultural consolidation thinking）.docVIP

农业起源问题整理思考（The question of the origin of agricultural consolidation thinking） Origin of agriculture, problem, arrangement, thought The origin of agriculture is the key research topic of Agricultural Archaeology, the western academic circles pay more attention to the question of the origin of abnormal agriculture, as early as eighteenth Century began to contact this problem, in nineteenth Century, some scholars explored from the perspective of the history of anthropology. In twentieth Century, due to the development of archaeology, especially many early farming sites have been found in the Near East, so that the problem of the origin of agriculture attracted more attention of scholars have put forward various hypothesis, present situation of contention of a hundred schools of thought. In the origin of agriculture, the British archaeologist Childs contribution is outstanding. He is the first agricultural produce as the distinction between the Neolithic and Paleolithic standards, rather than the traditional to grinding stone and pottery as the main symbol, and the birth of agriculture called the Neolithic Revolution, its importance in the history of mankind can be compared with the modern industrial revolution and favorably. So that the archaeological community pay more attention to the origin of agriculture, and more actively and consciously collect information about the origin of agriculture in archaeological excavation, and explore the causes of the origin. There are several hypotheses about the origin of agriculture in the west: (1) oasis theory Child himself was famous for his hypothesis that agriculture originated from the oasis. Child said at the end of the last ice age, wet and cold near the climate became warm and dry, plant only grows in the river and oasis, animal habitat in the water near, humans also had to live in the vicinity of water, so as to observe the plants and animals around and gradually plant cultivation, animal domestication. Agriculture has th