Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This volume develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. It modifies the conceptual dichotomy between "hunter-gatherers" and "farmers", viewing human exploitation of plant resources as a global evolutionary process which incorporated the beginnings of cultivation and crop domestication. The studies throughout the book come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. This work is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists and geographers. Originally published 1989.

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Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This volume develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. It modifies the conceptual dichotomy between "hunter-gatherers" and "farmers", viewing human exploitation of plant resources as a global evolutionary process which incorporated the beginnings of cultivation and crop domestication. The studies throughout the book come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. This work is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists and geographers. Originally published 1989.

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Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation

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Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation

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This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This volume develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. It modifies the conceptual dichotomy between "hunter-gatherers" and "farmers", viewing human exploitation of plant resources as a global evolutionary process which incorporated the beginnings of cultivation and crop domestication. The studies throughout the book come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. This work is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists and geographers. Originally published 1989.


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ISBN-13: 9781317598282
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/30/2014
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
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David R. Harris

Table of Contents

Introduction, David R. Harris, Gordon C. Hillman; Part 1 The Evolution of Plant Exploitation: Concepts and Processes; Chapter 1 An evolutionary continuum of people–plant interaction, David R. Harris; Chapter 2 Darwinism and its role in the explanation of domestication, David Rindos; Chapter 3 Domestication and domiculture in northern Australia: a social perspective, A. K. Chase; Chapter 4 The domestication of environment, D. E. Yen; Part 2 Plant Exploitation in Non-Agrarian Contexts: The Ethnographic Witness; Chapter 5 Wild-grass seed harvesting in the Sahara and Sub-Sahara of Africa, Jack R. Harlan; Chapter 6 Australian Aboriginal seed grinding and its archaeological record: a case study from the Western Desert, Scott Cane; Chapter 7 Plant foods of the Gidjingali: ethnographic and archaeological perspectives from northern Australia on tuber and seed exploitation, Rhys Jones, Betty Meehan; Chapter 8 Plant usage and management in Southwest Australian Aboriginal societies, Sylvia J. Hallam; Chapter 9 Ethnoecological observations on wild and cultivated rice and yams in northeastern Thailand, Joyce C. White; Chapter 10 An example of intensive plant husbandry: the Kumeyaay of southern California, Florence C. Shipek; Chapter 11 Plant-food processing: implications for dietary quality, Ann B. Stahl; Part 3 Plant Exploitation in Pre-Agrarian Contexts: The Archaeological Evidence; Chapter 12 Plant exploitation at Grotta dell’Uzzo, Sicily: new evidence for the transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic subsistence in southern Europe, Lorenzo Costantini; Chapter 13 Late Palaeolithic plant foods from Wadi Kubbaniya in Upper Egypt: dietary diversity, infant weaning, and seasonality in a riverine environment, Gordon C. Hillman; Chapter 14 Plant-food economy during the Epipalaeolithic period at Tell Abu Hureyra Syria: dietary diversity, seasonality, and modes of exploitation, Gordon C. Hillman, Susan M. Colledge, David R. Harris; Chapter 15 Mesolithic exploitation of wild plants in Sri Lanka: archaeobotanical study at the cave site of Beli-Lena, M. D. Kajale; Chapter 16 New evidence on plant exploitation and environment during the Hoabinhian (Late Stone Age) from Ban Kao Caves, Thailand, Kosum Pyramarn; Chapter 17 The taming of the rain forests: a model for Late Pleistocene forest exploitation in New Guinea, Les Groube; Chapter 18 Seed gathering in inland Australia: current evidence from seed-grinders on the antiquity of the ethnohistorical pattern of exploitation, M. A. Smith; Chapter 19 Adaptation of prehistoric hunter-gatherers to the high Andes: the changing role of plant resources, Deborah M. Pearsall; Part 4 Agrarian Plant Exploitation: The Domestication and Diffusion of Crops and Crop Assemblages; Chapter 20 The tropical African cereals, Jack R. Harlan; Chapter 21 Factors responsible for the ennoblement of African yams: inferences from experiments in yam domestication, V. E. Chikwendu, C. E. A. Okezie; Chapter 22 Domestication of the Southwest Asian Neolithic crop assemblage of cereals, pulses, and flax: the evidence from the living plants, Daniel Zohary; Chapter 23 Origin and domestication of the Southwest Asian grain legumes, Gideon Ladizinsky; Chapter 24 Cryptic anatomical characters as evidence of early cultivation in the grain legumes (pulses), Ann Butler; Chapter 25 Domestication and spread of the cultivated rices, T. T. Chang; Chapter 26 Crops of the Pacific: new evidence from the chemical analysis of organic residues in pottery, H. Edward Hill, John Evans; Chapter 27 Cytological and genetical evidence on the domestication and diffusion of crops within the Americas, Barbara Pickersgill; Chapter 28 Maize: domestication, racial evolution, and spread, Garrison Wilkes; Chapter 29 Andean maize: its origins and domestication, Duccio Bonavia, Alexander Grobman; Chapter 30 Domestication of Cucurbitaceae: Cucurbita and Lagenaria, Charles B. HeiserJr.; Chapter 31 The domestication of roots and tubers in the American tropics, J. G. Hawkes; Chapter 32 A chemical–ecological model of root and tuber domestication in the Andes, Timothy Johns; Part 5 Agrarian Plant Exploitation: The Evolution of Agricultural Systems; Chapter 33 From foraging to food production in northeastern Venezuela and the Caribbean, Mario Sanoja, Heather Brothwell; Chapter 34 Non-affluent foragers: resource availability, seasonal shortages, and the emergence of agriculture in Panamanian tropical forests, Dolores R. Piperno; Chapter 35 Early plant cultivation in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, Patty Jo Watson; Chapter 36 Agricultural intensification and ridged-field cultivation in the prehistoric upper Midwest of North America, James P. Gallagher; Chapter 37 The spread of agriculture in western Europe: Indo-European and (non-) pre-Indo-European linguistic evidence, T. L. Markey; Chapter 38 Agricultural evolution north of the Black Sea from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, Zoya V. Yanushevich, Katharine Judelson; Chapter 39 The transition from foraging to farming in Southwest Asia: present problems and future directions, A. M. T. Moore; Chapter 40 Early farming communities in the Jordan Valley, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Mordechai E. Kislev; Chapter 41 Prehistoric agriculture in China, An Zhimin; Chapter 42 Coastal adaptation, sedentism, and domestication: a model for socio-economic intensification in prehistoric Southeast Asia, Charles Higham, Bernard Maloney; Chapter 43 The transition from stone to steel in the prehistoric swidden agricultural technology of the Kantu’ of Kalimantan, Indonesia, Michael R. Dove; Chapter 44 The origins and development of New Guinea agriculture, Jack Golson; Chapter 45 Gardens in the south: diversity and change in prehistoric Maaori agriculture, Susan Bulmer;
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