TY  - BOOK
AU  - CLARK,J.DESMOND
AU  - COURSEY,D.G.
AU  - DAVID,NICHOLAS
AU  - FLIGHT,COLIN
AU  - HARLAN,J.R.
AU  - HARLAN,JACK R.
AU  - HARRIS,DAVID R.
AU  - HIGGS,ERIC
AU  - Harlan,Jack R.
AU  - MUNSON,PATRICK J.
AU  - PFEIFFER,JOHN E.
AU  - PORTÈRES,ROLAND
AU  - PRICE,E.G.
AU  - PURSEGLOVE,J.W.
AU  - SCHILD,ROMUALD
AU  - SCUDDER,THAYER
AU  - SHAW,THURSTAN
AU  - SMITH,PHILIP E.L.
AU  - STEMLER,ANN
AU  - WENDORF,FRED
AU  - WET,J.M.J.DE
AU  - ZINDEREN BAKKER,Ε.M.VAN
TI  - Origins of African Plant Domestication
T2  - World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
SN  - 9789027978295
AV  - GN861 .O74
U1  - 630/.96 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Origin
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Agriculture, Prehistoric
KW  - Africa
KW  - Plants, Cultivated
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806373
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110806373
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110806373/original
ER  -