Overview
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Marijke Veen
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School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester, Leicester, England
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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- Krystyna Wasylikowa, Jeff Dahlberg
Pages 11-31
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- Hala Barakat, Ahmed Gamal el-Din Fahmy
Pages 33-46
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- Edward Biehl, Fred Wendorf, Warren Landry, Asrat Desta, Leilani Watrous
Pages 47-53
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- Peter Rowley-Conwy, William Deakin, Charles H. Shaw
Pages 55-61
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- Ruth Young, Gill Thompson
Pages 63-72
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- Marlies Klee, Barbara Zach
Pages 81-88
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- Catherine D’Andrea, Diane Lyons, Mitiku Haile, Ann Butler
Pages 101-122
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- Ann Butler, Zelealem Tesfay, Catherine D’Andrea, Diane Lyons
Pages 123-136
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- Gill Thompson, Ruth Young
Pages 221-239
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About this book
This volume presents a completely new and very substantial body of information about the origin of agriculture and plant use in Africa. All the evidence is very recent and for the first time all this archaeobotanical evidence is brought together in one volume (at present the information is unpublished or published in many disparate journals, confer ence reports, monographs, site reports, etc. ). Early publications concerned with the origins of African plant domestication relied almost exclusively on inferences made from the modem distribution of the wild progenitors of African cultivars; there existed virtually no archaeobotanical data at that time. Even as recently as the early 1990s direct evidence for the transition to farming and the relative roles of indigenous versus Near Eastern crops was lacking for most of Africa. This volume changes that and presents a wide range of ex citing new evidence, including case studies from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Uganda, Egypt, and Sudan, which range in date from 8000 BP to the present day. The volume ad dresses topics such as the role of wild plant resources in hunter-gatherer and farming com munities, the origins of agriculture, the agricultural foundation of complex societies, long-distance trade, the exchange of foods and crops, and the human impact on local vege tation-all key issues of current research in archaeology, anthropology, agronomy, ecol ogy, and economic history.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester, Leicester, England
Marijke Veen
