Rethinking agriculture archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives ; [developed from a session entitled "Inherited models and the denial of prehistory: challenging existing concepts of agriculture" at the 5th World Archaeological Congress (WAC5) in Washington, DC, in June 2003]

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 an...

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Körperschaft: World Archaeological Congress (BerichterstatterIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Denham, Tim (HerausgeberIn), Iriarte, José (BerichterstatterIn), Vrydaghs, Luc (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Walnut Creek, Calif. Left Coast Press 2007
Schriftenreihe:One world archaeology 51
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Zusammenfassung: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 -- Traditional perspectives on agriculture from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) / 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 moundbuilders 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 south-west Ethiopia / Elisabeth Anne Hildebrand -- Multi-disciplinary 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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Originally published: London: London: UCL, 2006. - 10-stellige ISBN nicht im Buch. - Kongress aus dem Vorwort ermittelt
Beschreibung:VI, 468 S.
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
24 cm
ISBN:1598742604
1-59874-260-4
9781598742602
978-1-59874-260-2