Archaeology of African plant use /
<DIV>The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book focuses on Paleolithic archaeobotany and the relationship between agriculture and social complexity. It explores the effects that plant life has had on humans as they evolved from primates through the complex societi...
| Други автори: | Stevens, Chris J., (Editor), Nixon, Sam (Archaeologist), (Editor), Murray, Mary-Anne, (Editor), Fuller, Dorian Q., (Editor), Fuller, Dorian Q. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Walnut Creek, California :
Left Coast Press, Inc.,
2013.
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| Серия: |
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=598429 |
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Archaeology of African plant use |
Съдържание:
- African archaeobotany expanding : an editorial / Dorian Q. Fuller, Sam Nixon, Chris J. Stevens and Mary Anne Murray
- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam
- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michele Wollstonecroft
- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers
- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling
- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. Fuller
- Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann
- Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walalde / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Deme
- Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. Adebisi Sowunmi
- Plant and land use in southern Cameroon between 400 BC and AD 400 / Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Hohn and Katharina Neumann
- Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach / Koen Bostoen
- Archaeobotany of two Middle Kingdom cult chambers at North Saqqara, Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai and Sakuji Yoshimura
- Botanical insights into the life of an ancient Egyptian village: excavation results from El-Amarna / Chris J. Stevens and Alan J. Clapham
- Agricultural innovation and state collapse in Meroitic Nubia: the impact of the savannah package / Dorian Q. Fuller
- Islands of agriculture on Victoria Nyanza / Andrew Reid and Ceri Ashley
- Archaeobotanical investigations of the Iron Age Lundu State, Malawi / Ingrid Heijen
- Prehistoric plant use on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, Spain): an example of the disappearance of agriculture in an isolated environment / Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodr©ıguez and Aguedo Marrero
- Patterns in the archaeobotany of Africa: developing a database for North Africa, the Sahara and the Sahel / Ruth Pelling
- The archaeobotany of farming communities in South Africa: a review / Alexander Antonites, Annie Raath Antonites
- Linguistic evidence and the origins of food production in Africa: where are we now? / Christopher Ehret
- African agricultural tools: implications of synchronic ethnography for agrarian history / Roger Blench
- Leaving a lasting impression: arable economies and cereal impressions in Africa and Europe / Meriel McClatchie and Dorian Q. Fuller
- The use of plants in iron production: insights from smelting remains from Buganda / Louise Iles.