Origins of African Plant Domestication

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Origins of African Plant Domestication

Edited by: Jack R. Harlan

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1976

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I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
General Editor s Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	IX
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	XI
INTRODUCTION
Plant Domestication and Indigenous African Agriculture JACK R. HARLAN, J. M. J. DE WET and ANN STEMLER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
SECTION ONE: Background Theory
A Note on the Problem of Basic Causes JOHN E. PFEIFFER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Archaeology and Domestication ERIC HIGGS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
SECTION TWO: Background Paleoclimates
Paleoecological Background in Connection with the Origin of Agriculture in Africa Ε. M. VAN ZINDEREN BAKKER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
SECTION THREE: Background Archaeology
Prehistoric Populations and Pressures Favoring Plant Domestication in Africa J. DESMOND CLARK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Early Crops in Africa: A Review of the Evidence THURSTAN SHAW Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
Early Food Production in Northern Africa as Seen from Southwestern Asia PHILIP E. L. SMITH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
SECTION FOUR: Regional Archaeological Evidence
Archaeological Data on the Origins of Cultivation in the Southwestern Sahara and Their Implications for West Africa PATRICK J. MUNSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
The Kintampo Culture and Its Place in the Economic Prehistory of West Africa COLIN FLIGHT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
History of Crops and Peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900 NICHOLAS DAVID Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
The Use of Ground Grain During the Late Paleolithic of the Lower Nile Valley, Egypt FRED WENDORF and ROMUALD SCHILD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
SECTION FIVE: Botanical and Ethnographic Evidence
The Origins and Migrations of Crops in Tropical Africa J. W. PURSEGLOVE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Traditional Systems of Plant Food Production and the Origins of Agriculture in West Africa DAVID R. HARRIS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
Social Anthropology and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Land Use Systems in Tropical Africa: A Cautionary Case Study from Zambia THAYER SCUDDER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
The Origins and Domestication of Yams in Africa D. G. COURSEY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	383
African Cereals: Eleusine, Fonio, Black Fonio, Tejf, Brachiaria, paspalum, Pennisetum, and African Rice ROLAND PORTÈRES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409
Variability in Sorghum bicolor J. M. J. DE WET, J. R. HARLAN and E. G. PRICE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	453
The Races of Sorghum in Africa JACK R. HARLAN and ANN STEMLER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	465
Biographical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	479
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	485
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	493

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January 1, 1976

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