Rethinking agriculture : archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives

Körperschaft: World Archaeological Congress
Weitere Verfasser: Denham, Tim
Iriarte, José, Ph. D.
Vrydaghs, Luc
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2007.
Umfang/Format: vi, 468 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: One world archaeology ; 51
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Online Zugang: Table of contents only
Inhaltsangabe:
  • New perspectives on plant domestication and the development of agriculture in the New World / José Iriarte
  • Keepers of Louisiana's levees : early mound builders and forest managers / Gayle J. Fritz
  • Modeling prehistoric agriculture through the palaeoenvironmental record : theoretical and methodological issues / Deborah M. Pearsall
  • Chronicling indigenous accounts of the 'rise of agriculture' in the Americas / Matthew P. Sayre
  • Starch remains, preservation biases and plant histories : an example from highland Peru / Linda Perry
  • Emerging food-producing systems in the La Plata Basin : the Los Ajos Site / José Iriarte
  • A tale of two tuber crops : how attributes of enset and yams may have shaped prehistoric human-plant interactions in southwest Ethiopia / Elisabeth Anne Hildebrand
  • Multidisciplinary evidence of mixed farming during the early Iron Age in Rwanda and Burundi / Marie-Claude Van Grunderbeek and Emile Roche.
  • Rethinking agriculture : introductory thoughts / Luc Vrydaghs and Tim Denham
  • Agriculture, cultivation and domestication : exploring the conceptual framework of early food production / David R. Harris
  • Selection, cultivation, and reproductive isolation : a reconsideration of the morphological and molecular signals of domestication / Martin Jones and Terry Brown
  • Subterranean diets in the tropical rain forests of Sarawak, Malaysia / Huw Barton and Victor Paz
  • Early to mid-Holocene plant exploitation in New Guinea : towards a contingent interpretation of agriculture / Tim Denham
  • Unravelling the story of early plant exploitation in highland Papua New Guinea / Jack Golson
  • The meaning of ditches : interpreting the archaeological record from New Guinea using insights from ethnography / Tim Bayliss-Smith
  • Traditional perspectives on agriculture from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) / Geertrui Louwagie and Roger Langohr.
  • The development of plant cultivation in semi-arid West Africa / Stefanie Kahlheber and Katharina Neumann
  • Human impact and environmental exploitation in Gabon during the Holocene / Richard Oslisly and Lee White
  • The establishment of traditional plantain cultivation in the African rain forest: a working hypothesis / Edmond De Langhe
  • African pastoral perspectives on domestication of the donkey : a first synthesis / Fiona Marshall
  • Using linguistics to reconstruct African subsistence systems : comparing crop names to trees and livestock / Roger Blench.