Discerning Palates of the Past : : An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Crop Cultivation and Plant Usage in India / / Seetha Narahari Reddy.
This book analyzes the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late Harappan cultures (ca. 2500-1700 BC) of northwest India. The economic role of drought-resistant millet crops is reconstructed using ethnographic studies of crop processing, palaeoethnobotany, and carbon isotope an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International Monographs in Prehistory: Ethnoarchaeology Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (175 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Plants, Past and Present: An Introduction
- 2. Archaeological Context and the Scope of Inquiry
- 3. The Living Past: Ethnographic Crop Processing Studies
- 4. The Search for Patterns: Ethnographic Modeling and Archaeological Relevance
- 5. Going Beyond Carbonized Seed Lists: Paleoethnobotanical Research
- 6. If the Threshing Floor Could Talk: Testing the Ethnographic Models
- 7. Modeling Animal Diet and Fodder Acquisition
- 8. Conclusion: Discerning Palates, Plant Usage and Subsistence
- Glossary
- References