Archaeology of African plant use / / editors, Chris J. Stevens [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Stevens, Chris J.
• Place / Publishing House: Walnut Creek, California : : Left Coast Press, Inc.,, [2014]; 2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

Table of Contents

African archaeobotany expanding : an editorial / Dorian Q. Fuller, Sam Nixon, Chris J. Stevens and Mary Anne Murray -- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam -- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michele Wollstonecroft -- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers -- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling -- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. Fuller -- Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann -- Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walalde / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Deme -- Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. Adebisi Sowunmi -- Plant and land use in southern Cameroon between 400 BC and AD 400 / Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Hohn and Katharina Neumann -- Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach / Koen Bostoen -- Archaeobotany of two Middle Kingdom cult chambers at North Saqqara, Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai and Sakuji Yoshimura -- Botanical insights into the life of an ancient Egyptian village: excavation results from El-Amarna / Chris J. Stevens and Alan J. Clapham -- Agricultural innovation and state collapse in Meroitic Nubia: the impact of the savannah package / Dorian Q. Fuller -- Islands of agriculture on Victoria Nyanza / Andrew Reid and Ceri Ashley -- Archaeobotanical investigations of the Iron Age Lundu State, Malawi / Ingrid Heijen -- Prehistoric plant use on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, Spain): an example of the disappearance of agriculture in an isolated environment / Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodrguez and Aguedo Marrero -- Patterns in the archaeobotany of Africa: developing a database for North Africa, the Sahara and the Sahel / Ruth Pelling -- The archaeobotany of farming communities in South Africa: a review / Alexander Antonites, Annie Raath Antonites -- Linguistic evidence and the origins of food production in Africa: where are we now? / Christopher Ehret -- African agricultural tools: implications of synchronic ethnography for agrarian history / Roger Blench -- Leaving a lasting impression: arable economies and cereal impressions in Africa and Europe / Meriel McClatchie and Dorian Q. Fuller -- The use of plants in iron production: insights from smelting remains from Buganda / Louise Iles.