Archaeology of African plant use

Weitere Verfasser: Fuller, Dorian Q.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2014.
Umfang/Format: 293 p. : ill., maps.
Schriftenreihe: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; 61
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Africa
Online Zugang: Online available
Inhaltsangabe:
  • African archaeobotany expanding : an editorial / Dorian Q. Fuller, Sam Nixon, Chris J. Stevens and Mary Anne Murray
  • Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam
  • Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michele Wollstonecroft
  • Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers
  • Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling
  • Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. Fuller
  • Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann
  • ^Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walalde / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Deme
  • Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. Adebisi Sowunmi
  • Plant and land use in southern Cameroon between 400 BC and AD 400 / Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Hohn and Katharina Neumann
  • Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach / Koen Bostoen
  • Archaeobotany of two Middle Kingdom cult chambers at North Saqqara, Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai and Sakuji Yoshimura
  • Botanical insights into the life of an ancient Egyptian village: excavation results from El-Amarna / Chris J. Stevens and Alan J. Clapham
  • Agricultural innovation and state collapse in Meroitic Nubia: the impact of the savannah package / Dorian Q. Fuller
  • Islands of agriculture on Victoria Nyanza / Andrew Reid and Ceri Ashley
  • ^Archaeobotanical investigations of the Iron Age Lundu State, Malawi / Ingrid Heijen
  • Prehistoric plant use on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, Spain): an example of the disappearance of agriculture in an isolated environment / Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodrguez and Aguedo Marrero
  • Patterns in the archaeobotany of Africa: developing a database for North Africa, the Sahara and the Sahel / Ruth Pelling
  • The archaeobotany of farming communities in South Africa: a review / Alexander Antonites, Annie Raath Antonites
  • Linguistic evidence and the origins of food production in Africa: where are we now? / Christopher Ehret
  • African agricultural tools: implications of synchronic ethnography for agrarian history / Roger Blench
  • Leaving a lasting impression: arable economies and cereal impressions in Africa and Europe / Meriel McClatchie and Dorian Q. Fuller
  • The use of plants in iron production: insights from smelting remains from Buganda / Louise Iles.