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.

Table of Contents

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