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News from the Past : Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on African Archaeobotany in Vienna, 2-5 July 2012.

Most of the contributions in this volume were presented at the seventh International Workshop on African Archaeobotany (IWAA), held in Vienna, 2-5 July 2012. They address past interrelationships between people and plants as evident in the rich archaeobotanical, ethnographic, and linguistic record of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thanheiser, Ursula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Barkhuis Publishing, 2016.
Colección:Advances in archaeobotany ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Ahmed Gamal el-Din Fahmy 1962-2013
  • The history of conifers in Egypt, part I: Mediterranean cypress( Cupressus sempervirens L., Cupressaceae)
  • Reconstructing African agrarian prehistory by combining different sources of evidence: Examples for West African economic plants
  • Modelling shifts in cereal cultivation in Egypt from the start of agriculture until modern times
  • An investigation of taphonomic processes by means of digital image analysis of Phoenix dactylifera L. seeds from Roman Karanis (Fayum, Egypt)
  • Archaeobotanical research and related ethnobotanical observations in the central and southern Sahara
  • Taro across the oceans: Journeys of one of our oldest crops
  • The identification of non-dietary crop products of Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn. ssp. coracana, Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br., and Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench by phytolith analysis
  • Charred plant macroremains (seeds, fruits) and phytoliths from villa E12.10 at Amara West, a pharaonic town in northern Sudan
  • Pearl millet, Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br. ssp. glaucum, in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt