Origins of African Plant Domestication /

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
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (498 p.) :; Figs. Plates. Maps. Tabs.
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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

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