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LEADER: 03872cam a2200337 a 4500
001 2007018694
003 DLC
005 20100123082921.0
008 070503s2007 cauab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007018694
020 $a9781598742602 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aCC79.5.P5$bR48 2007
082 00 $a930.1$222
245 00 $aRethinking agriculture :$barchaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives /$cedited by Tim Denham, José Iriarte, and Luc Vrydaghs.
260 $aWalnut Creek, CA :$bLeft Coast Press,$cc2007.
300 $avi, 468 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aOne world archaeology series ;$v51
500 $a"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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aRethinking agriculture : introductory thoughts / Luc Vrydaghs and Tim Denham -- Agriculture, cultivation and domestication : exploring the conceptual framework of early food production / David R. Harris -- Selection, cultivation, and reproductive isolation : a reconsideration of the morphological and molecular signals of domestication / Martin Jones and Terry Brown -- Subterranean diets in the tropical rain forests of Sarawak, Malaysia / Huw Barton and Victor Paz -- Early to mid-Holocene plant exploitation in New Guinea : towards a contingent interpretation of agriculture / Tim Denham -- Unravelling the story of early plant exploitation in highland Papua New Guinea / Jack Golson -- The meaning of ditches : interpreting the archaeological record from New Guinea using insights from ethnography / Tim Bayliss-Smith -- Traditional perspectives on agriculture from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) / Geertrui Louwagie and Roger Langohr -- New perspectives on plant domestication and the development of agriculture in the New World / José Iriarte -- Keepers of Louisiana's levees : early moundbuilders and forest managers / Gayle J. Fritz -- Modeling prehistoric agriculture through the palaeoenvironmental record : theoretical and methodological issues / Deborah M. Pearsall -- Chronicling indigenous accounts of the "rise of agriculture" in the Americas / Matthew P. Sayre -- Starch remains, preservation biases, and plant histories : an example from highland Peru / Linda Perry -- Emerging food-producing systems in the La Plata Basin : the Los Ajos Site / José Iriarte -- A tale of two tuber crops : how attributes of enset and yams may have shaped prehistoric human-plant interactions in south-west Ethiopia / Elisabeth Anne Hildebrand -- Multi-disciplinary evidence of mixed farming during the early Iron Age in Rwanda and Burundi / Marie-Claude Van Grunderbeek and Emile Roche -- The development of plant cultivation in semi-arid West Africa / Stefanie Kahlheber and Katharina Neumann -- Human impact and environmental exploitation in Gabon during the Holocene / Richard Oslisly and Lee White -- The establishment of traditional plantain cultivation in the African rain forest: a working hypothesis / Edmond De Langhe -- African pastoral perspectives on domestication of the donkey : a first synthesis / Fiona Marshall -- Using linguistics to reconstruct African subsistence systems : comparing crop names to trees and livestock / Roger Blench.
650 0 $aPlant remains (Archaeology)
650 0 $aEthnoarchaeology.
650 0 $aPaleoethnobotany.
650 0 $aAgriculture$xOrigin.
650 0 $aPlants, Cultivated$xOrigin.
700 1 $aDenham, Tim.
700 1 $aIriarte, José,$cPh. D.
700 1 $aVrydaghs, Luc.
711 2 $aWorld Archaeological Congress$n(5th :$d2003 :$cWashington, D.C.)
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007018694.html