Origins of African Plant Domestication / / ed. by Jack R. Harlan.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©1976 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Reprint 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (498 p.) :; Figs. Plates. Maps. Tabs. |
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Other title: | I-IV -- General Editor s Preface -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Plant Domestication and Indigenous African Agriculture -- SECTION ONE: Background Theory -- A Note on the Problem of Basic Causes -- Archaeology and Domestication -- SECTION TWO: Background Paleoclimates -- Paleoecological Background in Connection with the Origin of Agriculture in Africa -- SECTION THREE: Background Archaeology -- Prehistoric Populations and Pressures Favoring Plant Domestication in Africa -- Early Crops in Africa: A Review of the Evidence -- Early Food Production in Northern Africa as Seen from Southwestern Asia -- SECTION FOUR: Regional Archaeological Evidence -- Archaeological Data on the Origins of Cultivation in the Southwestern Sahara and Their Implications for West Africa -- The Kintampo Culture and Its Place in the Economic Prehistory of West Africa -- History of Crops and Peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900 -- The Use of Ground Grain During the Late Paleolithic of the Lower Nile Valley, Egypt -- SECTION FIVE: Botanical and Ethnographic Evidence -- The Origins and Migrations of Crops in Tropical Africa -- Traditional Systems of Plant Food Production and the Origins of Agriculture in West Africa -- Social Anthropology and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Land Use Systems in Tropical Africa: A Cautionary Case Study from Zambia -- The Origins and Domestication of Yams in Africa -- African Cereals: Eleusine, Fonio, Black Fonio, Tejf, Brachiaria, paspalum, Pennisetum, and African Rice -- Variability in Sorghum bicolor -- The Races of Sorghum in Africa -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110806373 9783110637922 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110806373 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Jack R. Harlan. |