Tropical Archaeobotany (eBook, ePUB)

Applications and New Developments
Redaktion: Hather, Jon G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Covers the examination, identification and interpretations of plant remains in tropical archaeology, whilst also the origins, spread, distribution and past use of tropical plants for food and other purposes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134681457
• Artikelnr.: 39933773

Autorenporträt

Jon G. Hather

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Wood charcoals from tropical sites
2: Archaeobotanical investigations on a multicultural site at Adam, Maharashtra, with special reference to the development of tropical agriculture in parts of India
3: The identification of charred root and tuber crops from archaeological sites in the pacific
4: Dietary evidence from the intestinal contents of ancient humans with particular reference to desiccated remains from northern Chile
5: Methods in the analysis of starch residues on prehistoric stone tools
6: Investigating New World tropical agriculture
7: The prospects and problems of using palynology to trace the origins of tropical agriculture
8: Anthropogenic indicators in pollen diagrams
9: Pollen in Polynesia
10: Chemosystematics in archaeology
11: Protein and lipid analysis of food residues
12: The genetics of agriculture