Overview
Contributions/chapters cover famous archaeological sites or regions from the Nile Valley to the Nok Region in West Africa
Covers the current archaeobotanical research on the African continent
Gives insight into different archaeobotanical methods, from the analyses of macro-remains like seeds to micro-remains like pollen
Gives the reader an impression of the multi-facetted research on the African continent
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mediterranean Africa
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Archaeology and Palaeoecology: Integrated Methods
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Plant Use, Agricultural History and Ethnoarchaeology: Foods and Fields
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Keywords
About this book
There is an essential connection between humans and plants, cultures and environments, and this is especially evident looking at the long history of the African continent. This book, comprising current research in archaeobotany on Africa, elucidates human adaptation and innovation with respect to the exploitation of plant resources. In the long-term perspective climatic changes of the environment as well as human impact have posed constant challenges to the interaction between peoples and the plants growing in different countries and latitudes. This book provides an insight into/overview of the manifold routes people have taken in various parts Africa in order to make a decent living from the provisions of their environment by bringing together the analyses of macroscopic and microscopic plant remains with ethnographic, botanical, geographical and linguistic research. The numerous chapters cover almost all the continent countries, and were prepared by most of the scholars who study African archaeobotany, i.e. the complex and composite history of plant uses and environmental transformations during the Holocene.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
KEY WORDS: palynology, palaeoethnobotany, botany, LTHI-Long Term Human Impact, LTE-Long-Term Ecology, Sahara, Northern Africa, Mediterranean basin, Lateglacial/Holocene.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plants and People in the African Past
Book Subtitle: Progress in African Archaeobotany
Editors: Anna Maria Mercuri, A. Catherine D'Andrea, Rita Fornaciari, Alexa Höhn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89839-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89838-4Published: 03 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07872-0Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89839-1Published: 31 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 576
Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 73 illustrations in colour
Topics: Life Sciences, general