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Origins of African Plant Domestication / ed. by Jack R. Harlan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1976Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (498 p.) : Figs. Plates. Maps. TabsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027978295
  • 9783110806373
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 630/.96 22
LOC classification:
  • GN861 .O74
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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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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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