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New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops edited by Paul E. Minnis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crops, Agricultural--history.
- Crops, Agricultural.
- Plants, Medicinal.
- Edible Grain--history.
- Edible Grain.
- Plants, Cultivated.
- Medicinal plants.
- Cereals as food.
- Crops.
- Indians of North America--Food.
- Paleoethnobotany.
- Plant remains (Archaeology).
- Indians of North America.
- Crops--History.
- Plants, Cultivated--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2016. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona :
- Summary:
- "New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crop profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the value of the ancient crop record to inform the present"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Maygrass (Phalaris caroliniana Walt.): its role and significance in native eastern North American agriculture / Gayle J. Fritz
- Goosefoot (Chenopodium) / Kristen J. Gremillion
- Sumpweed or marshelder (Iva annua) / Gail E. Wagner and Peter H. Carrington
- Agave (Agave spp.): a crop lost and found in the US-Mexico borderlands / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish
- Little barley grass (Hordeum pusillum Nutt.): a prehispanic new world domesticate lost to history / Karen R. Adams
- Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) / Emily McClung de Tapia, Diana Martínez-Yrizar, and Carmen Cristina Adriano-Morán
- Arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea) and leren (Calathea latifolia); marantaceae / Deborah M. Pearsall
- Panicum sumatrense: the forgotten millet / Steven A. Weber and Arunima Kashyap
- Bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia): ancient medicinal crop and farmers' favorite for feeding livestock / Naomi F. MIller and Dirk Enneking.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780816530625
- 0816530629
- OCLC:
- 1249501249
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