Foraging and Farming

The Evolution of Plant Exploitation
Herausgeber: Harris, David R.; Hillman, Gordon C.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This volume develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. It modifies the conceptual dichotomy between "hunter-gatherers" and "farmers", viewing human exploitation of plant resources as a global evolutionary process which incorporated the beginnings of cultivation and crop domestication. The studies throughout the book come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. This work is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists and geographers. Originally published 1989.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 766
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1302g
• ISBN-13: 9781138816015
• ISBN-10: 1138816019
• Artikelnr.: 40904091

Autorenporträt

David R. Harris

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword P.J. Ucko Preface. Introduction Part 1: The Evolution of Plant
Exploitation: Concepts and Processes 1. An Evolutionary Continuum of
People-plant Interaction D.R. Harris 2. Darwinism and its Role in the
Explanation of Domestication D. Rindos 3. Domestication and Domiculture in
Northern Australia: A Social Perspective A.K. Chase 4. The Domestication of
Environment D.E. Yen Part 2: Plant Exploitation in Non-agrarian Contexts:
The Ethnographic Witness 5. Wild-grass Seed Harvesting in the Sahara and
Sub-Sahara of Africa J.R. Harlan 6. Australian Aboriginal Seed Grinding and
its Archaeological Record: A Case Study from the Western Desert S. Cane 7.
Plant Foods of the Gidjingali: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives
from Northern Australia on Tuber and Seed Exploitation R. Jones and B.
Meehan 8. Plant Usage and Management in Southwest Australian Aboriginal
Societies S.J. Hallamm 9. Ethnoecological Observations on Wild and
Cultivated Rice and Yams in Northeastern Thailand, J.C. White 10. An
Example of Intensive Plant Husbandry: The Kumeyaay of Southern California
F.C. Shipek 11. Plant-food Processing: Implications for Dietary Quality
A.B. Stahl Part 3: Plant Exploitation in Per-agrarian Contexts: The
Archaeological Evidence 12. Plant Exploitation at Grotta dell'Uzzo, Sicily:
New Evidence for the Transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic Subsistence in
Southern Europe L. Constantini 13. Late Palaeolithic Plant Foods from Wadi
Kubbaniya in Upper Egypt: Dietary Diversity, Infant Weaning and Seasonality
in a Riverine Environment G.C. Hillman 14. Plant-food Economy During the
Epipalaeolithic Period at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria: Dietary Diversity,
Seasonality and Modes of Exploitation G.C. Hillman et al 15. Mesolithic
Exploitation of Wild Plants in Sri Lanka: Achaeobotanical Study at the Cave
Site of Beli-Lena M.D. Kajale 16. New Evidence on Plant Exploitation and
Environment During the Hoabinhian (Late Stone Age) from Ban Kao Caves,
Thailand K. Pyramarn 17. The Taming of the Rain Forests: A Model for Late
Pleistocene Forest Exploitation in New Guinea L. Groube 18. Seed Gathering
in Inland Australia: Current Evidence from Seed-grinders on the Antiquity
of the Ethnohistorical Pattern of Exploitation M.A. Smith 19. Adaptation of
Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers to the High Andes: The Changing Role of Plant
Resources D.M. Pearsall Part 4: Agrarian Plant Exploitation: The
Domestication and Diffusion of Crops and Crop Assemblages 20. The Tropical
African Cereals J.R. Harlan 21. Factors Responsible for the Ennoblement of
African Yams: Inferences from Experiments in Yam Domestication V.E.
Chikwendu and C.E.A. Okezie 22. Domestication of the Southwest Asian
Neolithic Crop Assemblage of Cereals, Pulses and Flax: The Evidence from
Living Plants D. Zohary 23. Origin and Domestication of the Southwest Asian
Grain Legumes G. Ladizinsky 24. Cryptic Anatomical Characters as Evidence
of Early Cultivation in the Grain Legumes (Pulses) A. Butler 25.
Domestication and the Spread of the Cultivated Rices T.T. Chang 26. Crops
of the Pacific: New Evidence from the Chemical Analysis of Organic Residues
in Pottery H.E. Hill & J. Evans 27. Cytological and Genetical Evidence on
the Domestication and Diffusion of Crops within the Americas B. Pickersgill
28. Maize: Domestication, Racial Evolution, and Spread G. Wilkes 29. Andean
Maize: Its Origins and Domestication D. Bonavia & A. Grobman 30.
Domestication of Cucurbitaceae: Cucurbita and Lagenaria C.B. Heiser, Jr.
31. The Domestication of Roots and Tubers in the American Tropics J.G.
Hawkes 32. A Chemical-ecological Model of Root and Tuber Domestication in
the Andes T. Johns Part 5: Agrarian Plant Exploitation: The Evolution of
Agricultural Systems 33. From Foraging to Food Production in North-eastern
Venezuela and the Caribbean M. Sanoja 34. Non-affluent Foragers: Resource
Availability, Seasonal Shortages and the Emergence of Agriculture in
Panamanian Tropical Forests D.R. Piperno 35. Early Plant Cultivation in the
Eastern Woodlands of North America P.J. Watson 36. Agricultural
Intensification and Ridged-field Cultivation in the Prehistoric Upper
Midwest of North America J.P. Gallagher 37. The Spread of Agriculture in
Western Europe: Indo-European and (Non-)Pre-Indo-European Linguistic
Evidence T.L. Markey 38. Agricultural Evolution North of the Black Sea from
the Neolithic to the Iron Age Z.V. Yanushevich 39. The Transition from
Foraging to Farming in Southwest Asia: Present Problems and Future
Directions A.M.T. Moore 40. Early Farming Communities in the Jordan Valley
O. Bar-Yosef & M.E. Kislev 41. Prehistoric Agriculture in China An Zhimin
42. Coastal Adaptation, Sedentism, and Domestivation: A Model for
Socio-economic Intensification in Prehistoric Southeast Asia C. Higham & B.
Maloney 43. The Transition from Stone to Steel in the Prehistoric Swidden
Agricultural Technology of the Kantu' of Kalimantan, Indonesia M.R. Dove
44. The Origins and Development of New Guinea Agriculture J. Golson 45.
Gardens in the South: Diversity and Change in Prehistoric Maori Agriculture
S. Bulmer