AU  - Hillman, Gordon C.,
AU  - Harris, David R.
ED  - World Archaeological Congress :
TI  - Foraging and farming: the evolution of plant exploitation 
T2  - One world archaeology
SN  - 0044452357
AV  - GN799.A4 F67 1989
PY  - 1989///
CY  - London, Boston
PB  - Unwin Hyman
KW  - Prehistoric peoples
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Food
KW  - Plant remains (Archaeology)
KW  - Hunting and gathering societies
KW  - Agriculture, Prehistoric
N1  - Results of a symposium held at the World Archaeological Congress, held in Southampton, England, in Sept. 1986; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. An evolutionary continuum of people-plant interaction /​ David R. Harris -- 2. Darwinism and its role in the explanation of domestication /​ David Rindos -- 3. Domestication and domiculture in northern Australia : a social perspective /​ A. K. Chase -- 4. The domestication of environment /​ D. E. Yen -- 5. Wild-grass seed harvesting in the Sahara and sub-Sahara of Africa /​ Jack R. Harlan -- 6. Australian Aboriginal seed grinding and its archaeological record : a case study from the Western Desert /​ Scott Cane -- 7. Plant foods of Gidjingali : ethnographic and archaeological perspectives from northern Australia on tuber and seed exploitation /​ Rhys Jones &​ Betty Mehan -- 8. Plant usage and management in southwest Australian Aboriginal societies /​ Sylvia J. Hallam -- 9. Ethnoecological observations on wild and cultivated rice and yams in northeastern Thailand /​ Joyce C. White -- 10. An example of intensive plant husbandry : the Kumeyaay of southern California /​ Florence C. Shipek -- 11. Plant-food processing : implications for dietary quality /​ Ann B. Stahl -- 12. Plant exploitation at Grotta dell'Uzzo, Sicily : new evidence for the transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic subsistence in southern Europe /​ Lorenzo Costantini -- 13. Late Paleolithic plant foods from Wadi Kubbaniya in Upper Egypt : dietary diversity, infant weaning, and seasonality in a riverine environment /​ Gordon C. Hillman -- 14. Plant-food economy during the Epipalaeolithic period at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria : dietary diversity, seasonality, and modes of exploitation /​ Gordon C. Hillman, Susan M. Colledge &​ David R. Harris -- 15. Mesolithic exploitation of wild plants in Sri Lanka : archaeobotanical study at the cave site of Beli-Lena /​ M.D. Kajale -- 16. New evidence on plant exploitation and environment during the Hoabinhian (late Stone Age) from Ban Kao Caves, Thailand /​ Kosum Pyramarn -- 17. The taming of the rain forests : a model for late Pleistocene forest exploitation in New Guinea /​ Les Groube --  18. Seed gathering in inland Australia : current evidence from seed-grinders on the antiquity of the ethnohistorical pattern of exploitation /​ M. A. Smith -- 19. Adaptation of prehistoric hunter-gatherers to the high Andes : the changing role of plant resources /​ Deborah M. Pearsall -- 20. The tropical African cereals /​ Jack R. Harlan -- 21. Factors responsible for the ennoblement of African yams : inferences from experiments in yam domestication /​ V. E. Chikwendu &​ C. E.A. Okezie -- 22. Domestication of the Southwest Asian Neolithic crop assemblage of cereals, pulses, and flax : the evidence from the living plants /​ Daniel Zohary -- 23. Origin and domestication of the Southwest Asian grain legumes /​ Gideon Ladizinsky -- 24. Cryptic anatomical characters as evidence of early cultivation in the grain legumes (pulses) /​ Ann Butler -- 25. Domestication and the spread of the cultivated rices /​ T. T. Chang -- 26. Crops of the Pacific : new evidence from the chemical analysis of organic residues in pottery /​ H. Edward Hill &​ John Evans -- 27.Cytological and genetic evidence on the domestication and diffusion of crops within the Americas /​ Barbara Pickersgill -- 28. Maize : domestication, racial evolution, and spread /​ Garrison Wilkes -- 29. Andean maize : its origins and domestication /​ Duccio Bonavia &​ Alexander Grobman -- 30. Domestication of Cucurbitacae : Cucurbita and Lagenaria /​ Charles B. Heiser Jr. -- 31. The domestication of roots and tubers in the American tropics /​ J. G. Hawkes -- 32. A chemical-ecological model of root and tuber domestication in the Andes /​ Timothy Johns -- 33. From foraging to food production in northeastern Venezuela and the Caribbean /​ Mario Sanoja -- 34. Non-affluent foragers : resource availability, seasonal shortages, and the emergence of agriculture in Panamanian tropical forests /​ Dolores R. Piperno -- 35. Early plant cultivation in the Eastern Woodlands of North America /​ Patty Jo Watson -- 36. Agricultural intensification and ridged field cultivation in the prehistoric upper Midwest of North America /​ James. P. Gallagher --37. The spread of agriculture in western Europe : Indo-European and (non-)pre-Indo-European linguistic evidence /​ T. L. Markey -- 38. Agricultural evolution north of the Black Sea from the Neolithic to the Iron Age /​ Zoya V. Yanushevich -- 39. The transition from foraging to farming in Southwest Asia : problems and future directions /​ A. M. T. Moore -- 40. Early farming communities in the Jordan Valley /​ Ofer Bar-Yosef &​ Mordechai E. Kislev -- 41. Prehistoric agriculture in China /​ An Zhimin -- 42. Coastal adaptation, sedentism, and domestication : a model for socio-economic intensification in prehistoric Southeast Asia /​ Charles Higham &​ Bernard Maloney -- 43. The transition from stone to steel in the prehistoric swidden agricultural technology of the Kantu' of Kalimantan, Indonesia /​ Michael R. Dove -- 44. The origins and development of New Guinea agriculture /​ Jack Golson -- 45. Gardens in the south : diversity and change in prehistoric Maaori agriculture /​ Susan Bulmer.
N2  - Papers resulting from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England, September 1986 ; includes papers by A. K. Chase, D. E. Yen, S. Cane, R. Jones and B. Meehan, S. J. Hallam, M. A. Smith, which have been annotated separately
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