New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops /

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"New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crop profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known s...

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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Minnis, Paul E. (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Crops, Agricultural > history.
Plants, Medicinal.
Edible Grain > history.
Archäobotanik
Ausgestorbene Pflanzen
Kultivierung
Nutzpflanzen
Plants, Cultivated.
Medicinal plants.
Cereals as food.
Crops.
Indians of North America > Food.
Paleoethnobotany.
Plant remains (Archaeology)
Crops > History.
Plants, Cultivated > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crop profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the value of the ancient crop record to inform the present"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (281 pages): illustrations, maps ;
ISBN:9780816544837

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