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Rethinking agriculture : archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives
Title
Rethinking agriculture : archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives / edited by Tim Denham, José Iriarte and Luc Vrydaghs.
ISBN
9781598742602 (alk. paper)
1598742604 (alk. paper)
Published
Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.
Physical Description
vi, 468 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Developed from a session entitled 'Inherited models and the denial of prehistory: challenging existing concepts of agriculture' at the Fifth World Archaeological Congress (WAC5) in Washington DC, in June 2003"--Pref.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 04, 2008
Series
One world archaeology series ; 51
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Rethinking agriculture : introductory thoughts / Luc Vrydaghs and Tim Denham
Agriculture, cultivation and domestication : exploring the conceptual framework of early food production / David R. Harris
Selection, cultivation and reproductive isolation : a reconsideration of the morphological and molecular signals of domestication / Martin Jones and Terry Brown
Subterranean diets in the tropical rain forests of Sarawak, Malaysia / Huw Barton and Victor Paz
Early to mid-Holocene plant exploitation in New Guinea : towards a contingent interpretation of agriculture / Tim Denham
Unravelling the story of early plant exploitation in highland Papua New Guinea / Jack Golson
The meaning of ditches : interpreting the archaeological record from New Guinea using insights from ethnography / Tim Bayliss-Smith
Perspectives on traditional agriculture from Rapa Nui / Geertrui Louwagie and Roger Langohr
New perspectives on plant domestication and the development of agriculture in the New World / José Iriarte
Keepers of Louisiana's levees : early mound builders and forest managers / Gayle J. Fritz
Modeling prehistoric agriculture through the palaeoenvironmental record : theoretical and methodological issues / Deborah M. Pearsall
Chronicling indigenous accounts of the 'rise of agriculture' in the Americas / Matthew P. Sayre
Starch remains, preservation biases and plant histories : an example from highland Peru / Linda Perry
Emerging food-producing systems in the La Plata Basin : the Los Ajos Site / José Iriarte
A tale of two tuber crops : how attributes of enset and yams may have shaped prehistoric human-plant interactions in southwest Ethiopia / Elisabeth Anne Hildebrand
Multidisciplinary evidence of mixed farming during the early Iron Age in Rwanda and Burundi / Marie-Claude Van Grunderbeek and Emile Roche
The development of plant cultivation in semi-arid West Africa / Stefanie Kahlheber and Katharina Neumann
Human impact and environmental exploitation in Gabon during the Holocene / Richard Oslisly and Lee White
The establishment of traditional plantain cultivation in the African rain forest: a working hypothesis / Edmond De Langhe
African pastoral perspectives on domestication of the donkey : a first synthesis / Fiona Marshall
Using linguistics to reconstruct African subsistence systems : comparing crop names to trees and livestock / Roger Blench.
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World Archaeological Congress (5th : 2003 : Washington, D.C.)
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