Rethinking agriculture : archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives / edited by Tim Denham, José Iriarte and Luc Vrydaghs.

Format Book
Publication InfoWalnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2007.
Descriptionvi, 468 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Plant remains (Archaeology)--Congresses.
Ethnoarchaeology--Congresses.
Paleoethnobotany--Congresses.
Agriculture--Origin. --Congresses.
Plants, Cultivated--Origin. --Congresses.

Other author/creatorDenham, Tim.
Other author/creatorIriarte, José, Ph. D.
Other author/creatorVrydaghs, Luc.
Other author/creatorWorld Archaeological Congress 2003 : Washington, D. C.) (5th :
SeriesOne world archaeology series ; 51
One world archaeology ; 51. ^A235869
Contents 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 -- Perspectives on traditional agriculture from Rapa Nui / 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 mound builders 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 southwest Ethiopia / Elisabeth Anne Hildebrand -- Multidisciplinary 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.
General note"Developed from a session entitled 'Inherited models and the denial of prehistory: challenging existing concepts of agriculture' at the Fifth World Archaeological Congress (WAC5) in Washington DC, in June 2003"--Pref.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2007018694
ISBN9781598742602 (alk. paper)
ISBN1598742604 (alk. paper)