Origins of African Plant Domestication / / ed. by Jack R. Harlan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: CLARK, J. DESMOND,; COURSEY, D. G.,; DAVID, NICHOLAS,; FLIGHT, COLIN,; HARLAN, J. R.,; HARLAN, JACK R.,; HARRIS, DAVID R.,; HIGGS, ERIC,; MUNSON, PATRICK J.,; PFEIFFER, JOHN E.,; PORTÈRES, ROLAND,; PRICE, E. G.,; PURSEGLOVE, J. W.,; SCHILD, ROMUALD,; SCUDDER, THAYER,; SHAW, THURSTAN,; SMITH, PHILIP E. L.,; STEMLER, ANN,; WENDORF, FRED,; WET, J. M. J. DE,; ZINDEREN BAKKER, Ε. M. VAN,
• HerausgeberIn: Harlan, Jack R.,
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (498 p.) :; Figs. Plates. Maps. Tabs.
• 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
• 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.