The Prehistory of Food

Appetites for Change
Herausgeber: Gosden, Chris; Hather, Jon G.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tackles the issues of subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact.

Produktdetails

• One World Archaeology
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9780415513494
• ISBN-10: 0415513499
• Artikelnr.: 46598210

Autorenporträt

Chris Gosden, Jon G. Hather

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chris Gosden. Part I: Food and Culture
Andrew Sherratt
Cash Crops before cash: hunting
farming
manufacture and trade in earlier Eurasia
Christine Hastorf
Cultural Implications of Crop introductions in Andean prehistory
Alejandro Haber
Uywana
the house and its indoor landscape: oblique approaches to
and beyond
domestication
Soren Blau
Of water and oil: exploitation of natural resources and social change in eastern Arabia
Gustavo Politis
Plant exploitation among the Nukak hunter-gathers of Amazonia: between ecology and ideology. Part II: Introductions
Helen Leach
Food processing technology: its role in inhibiting or promoting change in staple foods
K. Mehra
Subsistence changes in India and Pakistan: the Neolithic and Chalcolithic from the point of view of plant use today
Sarah Nelson
Megalithic monuments and the introduction of rice into Korea
Catherine Andrea
Dispersal of domesticated plants into northeastern Japan
Elizabeth Reitz
Native Americans and animal husbandry in the North American colony of Florida. Part III: Food and the Landscape
Tim Bayliss-Smith & Jack Golsen
The meaning of ditches: deconstructing the social landscapes of New Guinea
Kuk
phase 4
Chris Godsen & Lesley Head
Different histories: Papua New Guinea and Australia compared
Christophe Sand
From the swamp to the terrace: intensification of horticultural practices in New Caledonia
from first settlement to European contact
Robert Kuhlken
Warfare and intensive agriculture in Fiji
Carol Palmer
Who's land is it anyway? An historical examination of land tenure and agriculture in northern Jordon
Ken Thomas
Getting a life: stability and change in social and subsistence systems on the North-West Frontier (Pakistan) in later prehistory
Yuri Vostretsov
Interaction of maritime and agricultural adaptation in Japan sea basin
Kevin MacDonald
Invisible Pastoralists: sedentists and livestock remains in the later prehistory of arid West Africa
Willem van Zeist
Evidence for agricultural change in the Balikh basin
Northern Syria. Part IV: Plants and People
Edmond de Langhe & P. de Maret
Tracking the banana: significance to early agriculture
Randi Haaland
Theory and evidence in archaeological interpretation of the transition from gathering to domestication: the puzzle of the late emergence of domesticated sorghum in the Nile Valley
Deborah Pearsall
The impact of maize on subsistence systems in South America: an example from the Jama River Valley
Coastal Equador
Michael Therin
Richard Fullagar & Richard Torrence
Starch in sediments: a new approach to the study of subsistence and land use in Papua New Guinea
A. Butler
Traditional seed cropping systems in the temperate Old World: models for antiquity
George Wilcox
Agrarian change and the beginnings of agriculture in the Near East: evidence from wild projenitors
experimental cultivation and archaeobotanical data.