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;
