| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 468 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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One world archaeology series ; 51 |
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One world archaeology ; 51.
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| Contents |
Preface; 1. Rethinking Agriculture: Introductory Thoughts; 2. Agriculture, Cultivation and Domestication: Exploring the Conceptual Framework of Early Food Production; 3. Selection, Cultivation and Reproductive Isolation: A Reconsideration of the Morphological and Molecular Signals of Domestication; 4. Subterranean Diets in the Tropical Rain Forests of Sarawak, Malaysia; 5. Early to Mid-Holocene Plant Exploitation in New Guinea: Towards a Contingent Interpretation of Agriculture; 6. Unravelling the Story of Early Plant Exploitation in Highland Papua New Guinea |
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7. The Meaning of Ditches: Interpreting the Archaeological Record from New Guinea Using Insights from Ethnography8. Perspectives on Traditional Agriculture from Rapa Nui; 9. New Perspectives on Plant Domestication and the Development of Agriculture in the New World; 10. Keepers of Louisiana's Levees: Early Mound Builders and Forest Managers; 11. Modeling Prehistoric Agriculture through the Palaeoenvironmental Record: Theoretical and Methodological Issues; 12. Chronicling Indigenous Accounts of the 'Rise of Agriculture' in the Americas |
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13. Starch Remains, Preservation Biases and Plant Histories: An Example from Highland Peru14. Emerging Food-Producing Systems in the La Plata Basin: The Los Ajos Site; 15. A Tale of Two Tuber Crops: How Attributes of Enset and Yams may have Shaped Prehistoric Human-Plant Interactions in Southwest Ethiopia; 16. Multidisciplinary Evidence of Mixed Farming during the Early Iron Age in Rwanda and Burundi; 17. The Development of Plant Cultivation in Semi-Arid West Africa; 18. Human Impact and Environmental Exploitation in Gabon during the Holocene |
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19. The Establishment of Traditional Plantain Cultivation in the African Rain Forest: A Working Hypothesis20. African Pastoral Perspectives on Domestication of the Donkey: A First Synthesis; 21. Using Linguistics to Reconstruct African Subsistence Systems: Comparing Crop Names to Trees and Livestock; Subject Index; Botanical Index; About the Contributors |
| Summary |
This volume highlights new archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research on early agriculture in understudied non-Eurasian regions, including Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Americas and Africa, to present a more balanced view of the origins and development of agricultural practices around the globe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plant remains (Archaeology)
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Ethnoarchaeology.
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Paleoethnobotany.
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Agriculture -- Origin.
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Plants, Cultivated -- Origin.
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ethnoarchaeology.
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Agriculture -- Origin
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Ethnoarchaeology
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Paleoethnobotany
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Plant remains (Archaeology)
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Plants, Cultivated -- Origin
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Denham, Tim
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Iriarte, José, Ph. D.
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Vrydaghs, Luc
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World Archaeological Congress (5th : 2003 : Washington, D.C.)
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| LC no. |
2007018694 |
| ISBN |
1598742612 |
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9781598742619 |
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9781598747362 |
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1598747363 |
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