Origins of African plant domestication /
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| Imprint: | The Hague : Mouton ; Chicago : Distributed by Aldine, ©1976. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 498 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | World anthropology World anthropology. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11226832 |
Table of Contents:
- Plant domestication and indigenous African agriculture / Jack R. Harlan, J.M.J. de Wet and Ann Stemler
- A note on the problem of basic causes / John E. Pfeiffer
- Archaeology and domestication / Eric Higgs
- Paleoecological background in connection with the origin of agriculture in Africa / E.M. van Zinderen Bakker
- Prehistoric populations and pressures favoring plant domestication in Africa / J. Desmond Clark
- Early crops in Africa : a review of the evidence / Thurstan Shaw
- Early food production in northern Africa as seen from southwestern Asia / Philip E.L. Smith
- Archaeological data on the origins of cultivation in the southwestern Sahara and their implications for West Africa / Patrick J. Munson
- The Kintampo culture and its place in the economic prehistory of West Africa / Colin Flight
- History of crops and peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900 / Nicholas David
- The use of ground grain during the late Paleolithic of the lower Nile Valley, Egypt / Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild
- The origins and migrations of crops in tropical Africa / J.W. Purseglove
- Traditional systems of plant food production and the origins of agriculture in West Africa / David R. Harris
- Social anthropology and the reconstruction of prehistoric land use systems in tropical Africa : a cautionary case study from Zambia / Thayer Scudder
- The origins and domestication of yams in Africa / D.G. Coursey
- African cereals : eleusine, fonio, black fonio, teff, Brachiaria, paspalum, Pennisetum, and African rice / Roland Portères
- Variability in Sorghum biocolor / J.M.J. de Wet, J.R. Harlan and E.G. Price
- The races of sorghum in Africa / Jack R. Harlan and Ann Stemler.