Archaeology of African plant use / editors, Chris J. Stevens, Sam Nixon, Mary-Anne Murray, Dorian Q. Fuller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stevens, Chris J., editor.

Nixon, Sam, 1977- editor.

Murray, Mary-Anne, editor.

Fuller, Dorian Q., editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; 61.

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant remains (Archaeology)--Africa.

Plant remains (Archaeology).

Agriculture, Prehistoric--Africa.

Agriculture, Prehistoric.

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Africa.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Africa.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Africa--Antiquities.

Africa.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2013]

Contents:

African archaeobotany expanding : an editorial / Dorian Q. Fuller, Sam Nixon, Chris J. Stevens and Mary Anne Murray

Primate archaeobotany : the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam

Dietary diversity : our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft

Seeds at Sibudu : a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers

Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa : the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington, and Richard Cowling

Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. Fuller

Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann

Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walaldé / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Déme

Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. Adebisi Sowunmi

Plant and land use in southern Cameroon 400 B.C.E.-400 C.E. / Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Höhn and Katharina Neumann

Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities : a historical-linguistic approach / Koen Bostoen

Archaeobotany of two Middle Kingdom cult chambers at northwest Saqqara, Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai, and Sakuji Yoshimura

Botanical insights into the life of an ancient Egyptian village : excavation results from Amarna / Chris J. Stevens and Alan J. Clapham

Agricultural innovation and state collapse in Meroitic Nubia : the impact of the savannah package / Dorian Q. Fuller

Islands of agriculture on Victoria Nyanza / Andrew Reid and Ceri Ashley

Archaeobotanical investigations of the Iron Age Lundu State, Malawi / Ingrid Heijen

Prehistoric plant use on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, Spain) : an example of the disappearance of agriculture in an isolated environment / Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodríguez and Águedo Marrero

Patterns in the archaeobotany of Africa : developing a database for North Africa, the Sahara and the Sahel / Ruth Pelling

The archaeobotany of farming communities in South Africa : a review / Alexander Antonites and Annie Raath Antonites

Linguistic evidence and the origins of food production in Africa : where are we now? / Christopher Ehret

African agricultural tools : implications of synchronic ethnography for agrarian history / Roger Blench

Leaving a lasting impression : arable economies and cereal impressions in Africa and Europe / Meriel McClatchie and Dorian Q. Fuller

The use of plants in iron production : insights from smelting remains from Buganda / Louise Iles.

Notes:

Date of publication, Dec. 2013. (Publisher's website)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Contains:

Fuller, Dorian Q. African archaeobotany expanding.

ISBN:

1611329744

9781611329742

9781611329766

1611329760

9781611327564

1611327563

OCLC:

847246528

Publisher Number:

99957529032