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Rethinking agriculture : archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives.
Although the need to study agriculture in different parts of the world on its "own terms" has long been recognized and re-affirmed, a tendency persists to evaluate agriculture across the globe using concepts, lines of evidence and methods derived from Eurasian research. However, researcher...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek :
Left Coast Press, Inc.,
2010.
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| Colección: | One world archaeology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; 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 Ethnography8. 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 Peru14. 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 Hypothesis20. 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; Subject Index; Botanical Index; About the Contributors.