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Foraging and farming : the evolution of plant exploitation
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- World Archaeological Congress (1st: 1986 : Southampton, England)
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Papers resulting from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England, September 1986 ; includes papers by A. K. Chase, D. E. Yen, S. Cane, R. Jones and B. Meehan, S. J. Hallam, M. A...
Papers resulting from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England, September 1986 ; includes papers by A. K. Chase, D. E. Yen, S. Cane, R. Jones and B. Meehan, S. J. Hallam, M. A. Smith, which have been annotated separately.
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- edited by David R. Harris, Gordon C. Hillman
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1989
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- xxxiii, 733 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0044450257, 9780044452355, 9780044450252, 0044452357
- OCLC
- ocm18558399
- Results of a symposium held at the World Archaeological Congress, held in Southampton, England, in Sept. 1986.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- An evolutionary continuum of people-plant interaction / David R. Harris -- Darwinism and its role in the explanation of domestication / David Rindos -- Domestication and domiculture in northern Australia : a social perspective / A.K. Chase -- The domestication of environment / D.E. Yen -- Wild-grass seed harvesting in the Sahara and sub-Sahara of Africa / Jack R. Harlan -- Australian Aboriginal seed grinding and its archaeological record : a case study from the Western Desert / Scott Cane -- Plant foods of Gidjingali : ethnographic and archaeological perspectives from northern Australia on tuber and seed exploitation / Rhys Jones & Betty Mehan -- Plant usage and management in southwest Australian Aboriginal societies / Sylvia J. Hallam -- Ethnoecological observations on wild and cultivated rice and yams in northeastern Thailand / Joyce C. White -- An example of intensive plant husbandry : the Kumeyaay of southern California / Florence C. Shipek -- Plant-food processing : implications for dietary quality / Ann B. Stahl -- Plant exploitation at Grotta dell'Uzzo, Sicily : new evidence for the transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic subsistence in southern Europe / Lorenzo Costantini -- Late Paleolithic plant foods from Wadi Kubbaniya in Upper Egypt : dietary diversity, infant weaning, and seasonality in a riverine environment / Gordon C. Hillman -- Plant-food economy during the Epipalaeolithic period at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria : dietary diversity, seasonality, and modes of exploitation / Gordon C. Hillman, Susan M. Colledge & David R. Harris -- Mesolithic exploitation of wild plants in Sri Lanka : archaeobotanical study at the cave site of Beli-Lena / M.D. Kajale -- New evidence on plant exploitation and environment during the Hoabinhian (late Stone Age) from Ban Kao Caves, Thailand / Kosum Pyramarn -- The taming of the rain forests : a model for late Pleistocene forest exploitation in New Guinea / Les Groube -- Seed gathering in inland Australia : current evidence from seed-grinders on the antiquity of the ethnohistorical pattern of exploitation / M.A. Smith -- Adaptation of prehistoric hunter-gatherers to the high Andes : the changing role of plant resources / Deborah M. Pearsall -- The tropical African cereals / Jack R. Harlan -- Factors responsible for the ennoblement of African yams : inferences from experiments in yam domestication / V.E. Chikwendu & C.E.A. Okezie -- Domestication of the Southwest Asian Neolithic crop assemblage of cereals, pulses, and flax : the evidence from the living plants / Daniel Zohary -- Origin and domestication of the Southwest Asian grain legumes / Gideon Ladizinsky -- Cryptic anatomical characters as evidence of early cultivation in the grain legumes (pulses) / Ann Butler -- Domestication and the spread of the cultivated rices / T.T. Chang -- Crops of the Pacific : new evidence from the chemical analysis of organic residues in pottery / H. Edward Hill & John Evans -- Cytological and genetic evidence on the domestication and diffusion of crops within the Americas / Barbara Pickersgill -- Maize : domestication, racial evolution, and spread / Garrison Wilkes -- Andean maize : its origins and domestication / Duccio Bonavia & Alexander Grobman -- Domestication of Cucurbitacae : Cucurbita and Lagenaria / Charles B. Heiser Jr. -- The domestication of roots and tubers in the American tropics / J.G. Hawkes -- A chemical-ecological model of root and tuber domestication in the Andes / Timothy Johns -- From foraging to food production in northeastern Venezuela and the Caribbean / Mario Sanoja -- Non-affluent foragers : resource availability, seasonal shortages, and the emergence of agriculture in Panamanian tropical forests / Dolores R. Piperno -- Early plant cultivation in the Eastern Woodlands of North America / Patty Jo Watson -- Agricultural intensification and ridged field cultivation in the prehistoric upper Midwest of North America / James. P. Gallagher -- The spread of agriculture in western Europe : Indo-European and (non- )pre-Indo-European linguistic evidence / T.L. Markey -- Agricultural evolution north of the Black Sea from the Neolithic to the Iron Age / Zoya V. Yanushevich -- The transition from foraging to farming in Southwest Asia : problems and future directions / A.M.T. Moore -- Early farming communities in the Jordan Valley / Ofer Bar-Yosef & Mordechai E. Kislev -- Prehistoric agriculture in China / An Zhimin -- Coastal adaptation, sedentism, and domestication : a model for socio-economic intensification in prehistoric Southeast Asia / Charles Higham & Bernard Maloney -- The transition from stone to steel in the prehistoric swidden agricultural technology of the Kantu' of Kalimantan, Indonesia / Michael R. Dove -- The origins and development of New Guinea agriculture / Jack Golson -- Gardens in the south : diversity and change in prehistoric Maaori agriculture / Susan Bulmer