Ancient plants and people : contemporary trends in archaeobotany /
Mangroves and rice, six-row brittle barley and einkorn wheat. Ancient crops for prehistoric people. What do they have in common? All tell us about the lives and cultures of long ago, as humans cultivated or collected these plants for food. Exploring these and other important plants used for millenni...
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Martin K. Jones
- Introduction / Manon Savard, Marco Madella, and Carla Lancelotti
- Part I. Methodologies in Archaeobotany. Sample-size estimation and interassemblage quantification in archaeobotany / Gyoung-Ah Lee ; Regional exchanges in southeastern Arabia during the late pre-Islamic period : phytolith analysis of ceramic thin sections from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) / Luc Vrydaghs, Paul De Paepe, Katrien Rutten, and Ernie Haerinck ; Examining agriculture and climate change in antiquity : practical and theoretical considerations / Alexia Smith
- Part II. Case Studies in Archaeobotany and Vegetation History. Swahili urban food production : archaeotanical evidence from Pemba Island, Tanzania / Sarah C. Walshaw ; Plant food subsistence in context : an example from Epipaleolithic southwest Anatolia / Danièle Martinoli ; Vegetation proxy data and climate reconstruction : examples from West Asia / Naomi F. Miller ; Significance of prehistoric weed floras for the reconstruction of relations between environment and crop husbandry practices in the Near East / Simone Riehl
- Part III. Social Archaeobotany. Historical aspects of early plant cultivation in the uplands of eastern North America / Kristen J. Gremillion ; Routine activities, tertiary refuse, and labor organisation : social inferences from everyday archaeobotany / Dorian Q. Fuller, Chris Stevens, and Meriel McClatchie ; Of crops and food : a social perspective on rice in the Indus civilization / Marco Madella ; Anthracological research on the Brazilian coast : paleoenvironment and plant exploitation of sambaqui moundbuilders / Rita Scheel-Ybert and Maria Dulce Gaspar
- Part IV. Genetics in Archaeobotany. Rice of Asian origin / Yo-Ichiro Sato ; A review on the research on the origin of six-row barley / Ken-ichi Tanno ; Maize cob phytoliths as indicators of genetics and environmental conditions / Linda Scott Cummings.