Seetha Narahari Reddy

Discerning Palates of the Past

An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Crop Cultivation and Plant Usage in India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late Harappan cultures (c. 2500-1700 BC) of northwest India. The economic role of drought-resistant millet crops is reconstructed using ethnographic studies of crop processing, palaeoethnobotany, and carbon isotope analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 282mm x 221mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781879621374
• ISBN-10: 1879621371
• Artikelnr.: 40275229

Autorenporträt

Seetha Narahari Reddy is a Principal Investigator with Reddy Anthropology Consulting.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Plants, Past and Present: An Introduction
Chapter 2. Archaeological Context and the Scope of Inquiry
Chapter 3. The Living Past: Ethnographic Crop Processing Studies
Chapter 4. The Search for Patterns: Ethnographic Modeling and
Archaeological Relevance
Chapter 5. Going Beyond Carbonized Seed Lists: Paleoethnobotanical Research
Chapter 6. If the Threshing Floor Could Talk: Testing the Ethnographic
Models
Chapter 7. Modeling Animal Diet and Fodder Acquisition
Chapter 8. Conclusion: Discerning Palates, Plant Usage and Subsistence
Glossary
References