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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Denham, Tim.

Iriarte, José, Ph. D.

Vrydaghs, Luc.

Conference Name:

World Archaeological Congress (5th : 2003 : Washington, D.C.)

Series:

One world archaeology ; 51.

One world archaeology series ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant remains (Archaeology).

Ethnoarchaeology.

Paleoethnobotany.

Agriculture--Origin.

Agriculture.

Plants, Cultivated--Origin.

Plants, Cultivated.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although the need to study agriculture in different parts of the world on its "own terms" has long been recognized and re-affirmed, a tendency persists to evaluate agriculture across the globe using concepts, lines of evidence and methods derived from Eurasian research. However, researchers working in different regions are becoming increasingly aware of fundamental differences in the nature of, and methods employed to study, agriculture and plant exploitation practices in the past. Contributions to this volume rethink agriculture, whether in terms of existing regional chronologies, in ter

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Rethinking Agriculture: Introductory Thoughts; 2. Agriculture, Cultivation and Domestication: Exploring the Conceptual Framework of Early Food Production; 3. Selection, Cultivation and Reproductive Isolation: A Reconsideration of the Morphological and Molecular Signals of Domestication; 4. Subterranean Diets in the Tropical Rain Forests of Sarawak, Malaysia; 5. Early to Mid-Holocene Plant Exploitation in New Guinea: Towards a Contingent Interpretation of Agriculture; 6. Unravelling the Story of Early Plant Exploitation in Highland Papua New Guinea

7. The Meaning of Ditches: Interpreting the Archaeological Record from New Guinea Using Insights from Ethnography8. Perspectives on Traditional Agriculture from Rapa Nui; 9. New Perspectives on Plant Domestication and the Development of Agriculture in the New World; 10. Keepers of Louisiana's Levees: Early Mound Builders and Forest Managers; 11. Modeling Prehistoric Agriculture through the Palaeoenvironmental Record: Theoretical and Methodological Issues; 12. Chronicling Indigenous Accounts of the 'Rise of Agriculture' in the Americas

13. Starch Remains, Preservation Biases and Plant Histories: An Example from Highland Peru14. Emerging Food-Producing Systems in the La Plata Basin: The Los Ajos Site; 15. A Tale of Two Tuber Crops: How Attributes of Enset and Yams may have Shaped Prehistoric Human-Plant Interactions in Southwest Ethiopia; 16. Multidisciplinary Evidence of Mixed Farming during the Early Iron Age in Rwanda and Burundi; 17. The Development of Plant Cultivation in Semi-Arid West Africa; 18. Human Impact and Environmental Exploitation in Gabon during the Holocene

19. The Establishment of Traditional Plantain Cultivation in the African Rain Forest: A Working Hypothesis20. African Pastoral Perspectives on Domestication of the Donkey: A First Synthesis; 21. Using Linguistics to Reconstruct African Subsistence Systems: Comparing Crop Names to Trees and Livestock; Subject Index; Botanical Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-315-42099-6

1-315-42100-3

1-315-42101-1

1-59874-736-3

9781315421018

OCLC:

711747351