This volume presents a completely new and 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.
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This book brings together the most recent evidence for the exploitation of plant resources in ancient Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
race virgatum, neolithic nomadic tribes, silty flood plain, plant macroremains, charcoal assemblages, wine jar labels, archaeobotanical results, crop processing activities, quarry settlements, archaeobotanical research, woody resources, desiccated wood, domesticated sorghum, bicolor ssp, early medieval contexts, archaeobotanical evidence, archaeobotanical assemblages, archaeological plant, grass pea, archaeobotanical data, wild sorghum, halfa grass, archaeobotanical record, les charbons, charred plant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Burkina Faso, Red Sea, Adi Ainawalid, Eastern Desert, Mons Claudianus, Qasr Ibrim, Addis Ababa, Near Eastern, Cambridge University Press, Centre of Non-Western Studies, Western Desert, Abu Ballas, Mons Porphyrites, Redda Tekle-Haimanot, New Kingdom, Old World, Von Maydell, Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers, Soba East, Egyptian Nubia, Third World Medical Research Foundation, United Kingdom, Gogo Falls, Institut Français New!
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This book brings together the most recent evidence for the exploitation of plant resources in ancient Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
race virgatum, neolithic nomadic tribes, silty flood plain, plant macroremains, charcoal assemblages, wine jar labels, archaeobotanical results, crop processing activities, quarry settlements, archaeobotanical research, woody resources, desiccated wood, domesticated sorghum, bicolor ssp, early medieval contexts, archaeobotanical evidence, archaeobotanical assemblages, archaeological plant, grass pea, archaeobotanical data, wild sorghum, halfa grass, archaeobotanical record, les charbons, charred plant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Burkina Faso, Red Sea, Adi Ainawalid, Eastern Desert, Mons Claudianus, Qasr Ibrim, Addis Ababa, Near Eastern, Cambridge University Press, Centre of Non-Western Studies, Western Desert, Abu Ballas, Mons Porphyrites, Redda Tekle-Haimanot, New Kingdom, Old World, Von Maydell, Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers, Soba East, Egyptian Nubia, Third World Medical Research Foundation, United Kingdom, Gogo Falls, Institut Français New!
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- Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology by Paul T. Nicholson on page 167, and page 168
- The Beginning of the Use of Metals and Alloys by Robert Maddin on page 236
- Living in a Man-Made World: Gender Assumptions in Modern Housing Design by Marion Roberts on page 122
- Economic Botany by B. P. Pandey on page 135
- Ancient Egypt by A. Rosalie David on page 155
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- Droughts, Food and Culture: Ecological Change and Food Security in Africa's Later Prehistory by Fekri A. Hassan on 6 pages
- First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by Peter Bellwood on 5 pages
- The Archaeology of Drylands: Living at the Margin (One World Archaeology) by Graeme Barker in Front Matter, page 179, and page 196
- East African Archaeology: Foragers, Potters, Smiths, and Traders by Chapurukha M. Kusimba in Back Matter
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