Rethinking agriculture
Subtitle: archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives
By: edited by Tim Denham, José Iriarte, and Luc Vrydaghs.
Contributors: Denham, Tim.; Iriarte, José, Ph. D.; Vrydaghs, Luc.; World Archaeological Congress (5th : 2003 : Washington, D.C.)
Series: One world archaeology series -- 51
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781598742602
Subjects: Plant remains (Archaeology); Ethnoarchaeology; Paleoethnobotany; Agriculture -- Origin; Plants, Cultivated -- Origin
Notes: "Developed from a session entitled 'Inherited Models and the Denial of Prehistory: Challenging Existing Concepts of Agriculture' at the Fifth World Archaeological Congress (WAC5) in Washington DC in June 2003"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking agriculture : introductory thoughts / Luc Vrydaghs and Tim Denham; title: Agriculture, cultivation and domestication : exploring the conceptual framework of early food production / David R. Harris; title: Selection, cultivation, and reproductive isolation : a reconsideration of the morphological and molecular signals of domestication / Martin Jones and Terry Brown; title: Subterranean diets in the tropical rain forests of Sarawak, Malaysia / Huw Barton and Victor Paz; title: Early to mid-Holocene plant exploitation in New Guinea : towards a contingent interpretation of agriculture / Tim Denham; title: Unravelling the story of early plant exploitation in highland Papua New Guinea / Jack Golson; title: The meaning of ditches : interpreting the archaeological record from New Guinea using insights from ethnography / Tim Bayliss-Smith; title: Traditional perspectives on agriculture from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) / Geertrui Louwagie and Roger Langohr; title: New perspectives on plant domestication and the development of agriculture in the New World / José Iriarte; title: Keepers of Louisiana's levees : early moundbuilders and forest managers / Gayle J. Fritz; title: Modeling prehistoric agriculture through the palaeoenvironmental record : theoretical and methodological issues / Deborah M. Pearsall; title: Chronicling indigenous accounts of the "rise of agriculture" in the Americas / Matthew P. Sayre; title: Starch remains, preservation biases, and plant histories : an example from highland Peru / Linda Perry; title: Emerging food-producing systems in the La Plata Basin : the Los Ajos Site / José Iriarte; title: A tale of two tuber crops : how attributes of enset and yams may have shaped prehistoric human-plant interactions in south-west Ethiopia / Elisabeth Anne Hildebrand; title: Multi-disciplinary evidence of mixed farming during the early Iron Age in Rwanda and Burundi / Marie-Claude Van Grunderbeek and Emile Roche; title: The development of plant cultivation in semi-arid West Africa / Stefanie Kahlheber and Katharina Neumann; title: Human impact and environmental exploitation in Gabon during the Holocene / Richard Oslisly and Lee White; title: The establishment of traditional plantain cultivation in the African rain forest: a working hypothesis / Edmond De Langhe; title: African pastoral perspectives on domestication of the donkey : a first synthesis / Fiona Marshall; title: Using linguistics to reconstruct African subsistence systems : comparing crop names to trees and livestock / Roger Blench.