Wild Harvest : Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds.

Intro -- List of contributors -- Dedication: Lydia Zapata Peña -- Introduction -- Part 1: Setting the scene -- 1. Food carbohydrates from plants -- 2. Why protein is not enough: the roles of plants and plant processing in delivering the dietary requirements of modern and early Homo -- 3. An ape's perspective on the origins of medicinal plant use in humans -- 4. Plants as raw materials -- 5. Hunter-gatherer plant use in southwest Asia: the path to agriculture -- Part 2: Plant foods, tools and people -- 6. Scanning electron microscopy and starchy food in Mesolithic Europe: the importance of roots and tubers in Mesolithic diet -- 7. Tools, use wear and experimentation: extracting plants from stone and bone -- 8. Buccal dental microwear as an indicator of diet in modern and ancient human populations -- 9. What early human populations ate: the use of phytoliths for identifying plant remains in the archaeological record at Olduvai -- 10. Phytolith evidence of the use of plants as food by Late Natufians at Raqefet Cave -- 11. Evidence of plant foods obtained from the dental calculus of individuals from a Brazilian shell mound -- 12. Stable isotopes and mass spectrometry -- Part 3: Providing a context: ethnography, ethnobotany, ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology -- 13. Prehistoric fish traps and fishing structures from Zamostje 2, Russian European Plain: archaeological and ethnographical contexts -- 14. Plants and archaeology in Australia -- 15. Plentiful scarcity: plant use among Fuegian hunter-gatherers -- 16. Ethnobotany in evolutionary perspective: wild plants in diet composition and daily use among Hadza hunter-gatherers -- 17. Wild edible plant use among the people of Tomboronkoto, Kédougou region, Senegal -- Index.

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