Ancient Plants and People : Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany /

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"Mangroves and rice, six-row brittle barley and einkorn wheat. Ancient crops for prehistoric people. What do they have in common? All tell us about the lives and cultures of long ago, as humans cultivated or collected these plants for food. Exploring these and other important plants used for mi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Savard, Manon, 1970- (Editor ), Lancelotti, Carla (Editor ), Madella, Marco (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Landskapsarkeologi.
Social arkeologi.
Fytoliter.
Växtlämningar (arkeologi)
Social archaeology.
Plants and civilization.
Plant remains (Archaeology)
Phytoliths.
Landscape archaeology.
Food crops.
Archaeology > Methodology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Archeologie > Methodologie.
Archeologie du paysage.
Archeologie sociale.
Phytolithes.
Restes de plantes (Archeologie)
Plants and civilization > History > To 1500.
Food crops > History > To 1500.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Martin K. Jones
  • Introduction / Manon Savard, Marco Madella, and Carla Lancelotti
  • Part I. Methodologies in Archaeobotany
  • Sample-Size Estimation and Inter-Assemblage Quantification in Archaeobotany / Gyoung-Ah Lee
  • Regional Exchanges in South Eastern Arabia During the Late Pre-Islamic Period : The Contribution of Phytolith Analysis of Ceramic Thin Sections from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) / Luc Vrydaghs, Paul De Paepe, Kris Rutten, and Ernie Haerinck
  • Examining Agriculture and Climate Change in Antiquity : Practical and Theoretical Considerations / Alexia Smith
  • Part II. Case Studies in Archaeobotany and Vegetation History
  • Swahili Food Production : An Interim Archaeotanical Report from Pemba Island, Tanzania, Seventh through Sixteen Centuries AD / Sarah C. Walshaw
  • Plant-Food Subsistence in Context : An Example from Epipalaeolithic Southwest Anatolia / Daniele Martinoli
  • Vegetation Proxy Data and Climate Reconstruction : Examples from West Asia / Naomi F. Miller
  • The Significance of Prehistoric Weed Floras for the Reconstruction of Interrelations of Environment and Crop Husbandry Practices During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (1600-700 BC) in the Near East / Simone Riehl
  • Part III. Social Archaeobotany
  • Historical Aspects of Early Plant Cultivation in the Uplands of Eastern North America / Kristen J. Gremillion
  • Routine Activities, Tertiary Refuse, and Labour Organisation : Social Inferences from Everyday Archaeobotany / Dorian Q. Fuller, Chris Stevens, and Meriel McClatchie
  • Of Crops and Food : A Social Perspective on the Agricultural Tradition of the Harappan Civilisation / Marco Madella
  • Anthracological Research in the South-Southeastern Brazilian Coast : Palaeoenvironment and Plant Exploitation of Sambaqui Moundbuilders / Rita Scheel-Ybert and Maria Dulce Gaspar
  • Part IV. Genetics in Archaeobotany
  • Rice of Asian Origin / Yo-Ichiro Sato
  • A Review on the Research on the Origin of Six-Row Barley / Ken-ichi Tanno
  • Maize Cob Phytoliths as Indicators of Genetics and Environmental Conditions / Linda Scott-Cummings.

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