Rethinking Agriculture (eBook, ePUB)

Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
Redaktion: Denham, Timothy P; Vrydaghs, Luc; Iriarte, José

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315420998
• Artikelnr.: 45434015

Inhaltsangabe

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; 7: The
Meaning of Ditches: Interpreting the Archaeological Record from New Guinea
Using Insights from Ethnography; 8: 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; 13: Starch Remains, Preservation Biases and
Plant Histories: An Example from Highland Peru; 14: 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;
19: The Establishment of Traditional Plantain Cultivation in the African
Rain Forest: A Working Hypothesis; 20: 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