Ancient Plants and People : Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany.
Madella, Marco.
Ancient Plants and People : Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (329 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Martin K. Jones -- Introduction / Manon Savard, Marco Madella, and Carla Lancelotti -- I. Methodologies in Archaeobotany -- 1. Sample-Size Estimation and Interassemblage Quantification in Archaeobotany / Gyoung-Ah Lee -- 2. Regional Exchanges in Southeastern Arabia during the Late Pre-Islamic Period: Phytolith Analysis of Ceramic Thin Sections from ed-Dur (UAE) / Luc Vrydaghs, Paul De Paepe, Katrien Rutten, and Ernie Haerinck -- 3. Examining Agriculture and Climate Change in Antiquity: Practical and Theoretical Considerations / Alexia Smith -- II. Case Studies in Archaeobotany and Vegetation History -- 4. Swahili Urban Food Production: Archaeobotanical Evidence from Pemba Island, Tanzania / Sarah C. Walshaw -- 5. Plant Food Subsistence in Context: An Example from Epipaleolithic Southwest Anatolia / Danièle Martinoli -- 6. Vegetation Proxy Data and Climate Reconstruction: Examples from West Asia / Naomi F. Miller -- 7. Significance of Prehistoric Weed Floras for the Reconstruction of Relations between Environment and Crop Husbandry Practices in the Near East / Simone Riehl -- III. Social Archaeobotany -- 8. Historical Aspects of Early Plant Cultivation in the Uplands of Eastern North America / Kristen J. Gremillion -- 9. Routine Activities, Tertiary Refuse, and Labor Organization: Social Inferences from Everyday Archaeobotany / Dorian Q Fuller, Chris Stevens, and Meriel McClatchie -- 10. Of Crops and Food: A Social Perspective on Rice in the Indus Civilization / Marco Madella -- 11. Anthracological Research on the Brazilian Coast: Paleoenvironment and Plant Exploitation of Sambaqui Moundbuilders / Rita Scheel-Ybert and Maria Dulce Gaspar -- IV. Genetics in Archaeobotany -- 12. Rice of Asian Origin / Yo-Ichiro Sato -- 13. A Review of the Research on the Origin of Six-Row Barley / Ken-ichi Tanno. 14. Maize Cob Phytoliths as Indicators of Genetics and Environmental Conditions / Linda Scott Cummings -- Editors and Contributors -- Index.
9780816598687
Plant remains (Archaeology).
Phytoliths.
Social archaeology.
Archaeology-Methodology.
Landscape archaeology.
Food crops-History-To 1500.
Plants and civilization-History-To 1500.
Electronic books.
CC79
930.1028/2
Ancient Plants and People : Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (329 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Martin K. Jones -- Introduction / Manon Savard, Marco Madella, and Carla Lancelotti -- I. Methodologies in Archaeobotany -- 1. Sample-Size Estimation and Interassemblage Quantification in Archaeobotany / Gyoung-Ah Lee -- 2. Regional Exchanges in Southeastern Arabia during the Late Pre-Islamic Period: Phytolith Analysis of Ceramic Thin Sections from ed-Dur (UAE) / Luc Vrydaghs, Paul De Paepe, Katrien Rutten, and Ernie Haerinck -- 3. Examining Agriculture and Climate Change in Antiquity: Practical and Theoretical Considerations / Alexia Smith -- II. Case Studies in Archaeobotany and Vegetation History -- 4. Swahili Urban Food Production: Archaeobotanical Evidence from Pemba Island, Tanzania / Sarah C. Walshaw -- 5. Plant Food Subsistence in Context: An Example from Epipaleolithic Southwest Anatolia / Danièle Martinoli -- 6. Vegetation Proxy Data and Climate Reconstruction: Examples from West Asia / Naomi F. Miller -- 7. Significance of Prehistoric Weed Floras for the Reconstruction of Relations between Environment and Crop Husbandry Practices in the Near East / Simone Riehl -- III. Social Archaeobotany -- 8. Historical Aspects of Early Plant Cultivation in the Uplands of Eastern North America / Kristen J. Gremillion -- 9. Routine Activities, Tertiary Refuse, and Labor Organization: Social Inferences from Everyday Archaeobotany / Dorian Q Fuller, Chris Stevens, and Meriel McClatchie -- 10. Of Crops and Food: A Social Perspective on Rice in the Indus Civilization / Marco Madella -- 11. Anthracological Research on the Brazilian Coast: Paleoenvironment and Plant Exploitation of Sambaqui Moundbuilders / Rita Scheel-Ybert and Maria Dulce Gaspar -- IV. Genetics in Archaeobotany -- 12. Rice of Asian Origin / Yo-Ichiro Sato -- 13. A Review of the Research on the Origin of Six-Row Barley / Ken-ichi Tanno. 14. Maize Cob Phytoliths as Indicators of Genetics and Environmental Conditions / Linda Scott Cummings -- Editors and Contributors -- Index.
9780816598687
Plant remains (Archaeology).
Phytoliths.
Social archaeology.
Archaeology-Methodology.
Landscape archaeology.
Food crops-History-To 1500.
Plants and civilization-History-To 1500.
Electronic books.
CC79
930.1028/2