@article{fdi:010065845,
  title = {{I}nnovations, food storage and the origins of agriculture},
  author = {{S}aulieu, {G}eoffroy de and {T}estart, {A}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}he global phenomenon of the birth of agriculture remains an enigma and challenges the role of food storage. {M}uch has been written about their invention. {A} general explanation is needed for its progression in various parts of the world, which is both sociologically based and founded on the archaeological data. {T}his task led {A}lain {T}estart to claim that it was by developing their existing skill sets (foraging, pottery, food storage and small-scale agriculture) that nomadic hunter-gatherers, burdened by an increasingly diverse set of tools and equipment, became sedentary. {T}his sedentarism in turn allowed them to specialise in those activities, which had (literally) weighed them down: notably, breeding the first plant cultivars and, often, storing food.},
  keywords = {{AMERIQUE} {DU} {NORD} ; {ASIE} ; {EXTREME} {ORIENT} ; {CHINE} ; {JAPON} ; {AMERIQUE} {DU} {SUD} ; {BRESIL} ; {EQUATEUR} ; {PEROU} ; {AMAZONIE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{E}nvironmental {A}rchaeology},
  volume = {20},
  numero = {4},
  pages = {314--320},
  ISSN = {1461-4103 ; 1749-6314},
  year = {2015},
  DOI = {10.1179/1749631414{Y}.0000000061},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010065845},
}