From foragers to farmers : papers in honour of Gordon C. Hillman / edited by Andrew S. Fairbairn and Ehud Weiss.

Includes bibliographical references.

Personal Reflections : 1. Gordon Hillman and the development of archaeobotany at and beyond the London Institute of Archaeology / David R. Harris -- 2. Gordon Hillman, Abu Hureyra and the development of agriculture / Andrew M. T. Moore -- 3. Gordon Hillman's pioneering influence on Near Eastern archaeobotany, a personal appraisal / George Willcox -- Theory and Method : 4. On the potential for spring sowing in the ancient Near East / Mark A. Blumler and J. Giles Waines -- 5. Domestication and the dialectic : Archaeobotany and the future of the Neolithic Revolution in the Near East / Joy McCorriston -- 6. Agriculture and the development of complex societies : An archaeobotanical agenda / Dorian Q Fuller and Chris J Stevens -- 7. Dormancy and the plough : Weed seed biology as an indicator of agrarian change in the first millennium AD / Martin Jones -- Ethnobotany and Experiment : 8. Wild Plant Foods : Routine dietary supplements or famine foods? / Füsun Ertuğ -- 9. Acorns as food in southeast Turkey : Implications for prehistoric subsistence in Southwest Asia / Sarah Mason and Mark Nesbitt -- 10. Water chestnuts (Trapa natans L.) as controversial plants : Botanical, ethno-historical and archaeological evidence / Ksenija Borojevic -- 11. Evidence of domestication in the Old World grain legumes / Ann Butler -- 12. Einkorn (Triticum monococcum L.) cultivation in mountain communities of the western Rif (Morocco) : An ethnoarchaeological project / Leonor Pena-Chocarro, Lydia Zapata Pena, Jesus Emilio Gonzalez-Urquijo and Juan Jose Ibanez Estevez -- 13. The importance and antiquity of frikkeh : A simple snack or a socio-economic indicator of decline and prosperity in the ancient Near East? / Amr Al Azm -- 14. The doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica) in South Arabia : Past and present / Dominique de Moulins and Carl Phillips -- 15. Harvesting experiments on the clonal helophyte sea club-rush (Bolboschoemus maritimus (L.) Palla) : An approach to identifying variables that may have influenced hunter-gatherer resource selection in Late Pleistocene Southwest Asia / Michele Wollstonecroft -- 16. Aspects of the archaeology of the Irish keyhole-shaped corn-drying kiln with particular reference to archaeobotanical studies and archaeological experiments / Michael A. Monk and Ellen Kelleher -- Archaeobotany : 17. Glimpsing into a hut : The economy and Society of Ohalo II's inhabitants / Ehud Weiss -- 18. Reconstruction of local woodland vegetation and use of firewood at two Epipalaeolithic cave sites in southwest Anatolia (Turkey) / Daniele Martinoli -- 19. Vegetation and subsistence of the Epipalaeolithic in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt : Charcoal and macro-remains from Masara sites / Ursula Thanheiser -- 20. The uses of Eryngium yuccifolium by Native American people / Marie Scott Standifer, Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff and Shirley Cotter Tucker -- 21. Bananas : Towards a revised prehistory / Jean Kennedy -- 22. The advance of agriculture in the coastal zone of East Asia / Elena A. Sergusheva and Yury E. Vostretsov -- 23. Knossos, Crete : Invaders, 'sea-goers', or previously 'invisible', the Neolithic plant economy appears fully-fledged in 9,000 BP / Anaya Sarpaki -- 24. Reconstructing the ear morphology of ancient small-grain wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. parvicoccum) / M. E. Kislev -- 25. The KHALUB-tree in Mesopotamia : Myth or Reality? / Naomi F. Miller and Alhena Gadotti -- 26. The archaeobotany of cotton (Gossypium sp. L.) in Egypt and Nubia with special reference to Qasr Ibrim, Egyptian Nubia / A. J. Clapham and P. A. Rowley-Conwy -- 27. Questions of continuity : Fodder and fuel use in Bronze Age Egypt / Mary Anne Murray -- 28. Food and culture : The plant foods from Roman and Islamic Quseir, Egypt (Marijke van der Veen, Jacob Morales and Alison Cox.