Foraging and Farming

Part 1 The evolution of plant exploitation - concepts and processes: an evolutionary continuum of people-plant interaction, D.R.Harris; Darwinism and its role in the explanation of domestication, D.Rindos; domestication and domiculture in northern Australia - a social perspective, A.K.Chase; the domestication of environment, D.E.Yen. Part 2 Plant exploitation in non-agrarian contexts - the ethnographic witness: wild-grass seed harvesting in the Sahara and sub-Sahara of Africa, J.R.Harlan; Australian Aboriginal seed grinding and its archaeological record - a case study from the Western Desert, S.Cane; plant foods of hte Gidjingali - ethnographic and archaeological perspectives from northern Australia on tuber and seed exploitation, R.Jones and B.Meehan; plant usage and management in southwest Australian Aboriginal societies, S.J.Hallam; ethnoecological observations on wild and cultivated rice and yams in northeastern Thailand, J.C.White; an example of intensive plant husbandry - the Kumeyaay of southern California, F.C.Shipek; plant-food processing - implications for dietary quality, A.B.Stahl. Part 3 Plant exploitation in per-agrarian contexts - the archaeological evidence: plant exploitation at Grotta dell'Uzzo, Sicily - new evidence for the transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic subsistence in southern Europe, L.Constantini; late Palaeolithic plant foods from Wadi Kubbaniya in Upper Egypt - dietary diversity, infant weaning and seasonality in a riverine environment, G.C.Hillman; plant-food economy during the Epipalaeolithic period at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria - dietary diversity, seasonality and modes of exploitation, G.C.Hillman et al; Mesolithic exploitation of wild plants in Sri Lanka - archaeobotanical study at the cave site of Beli-Lena, M.D.Kajale; new evidence on plant exploitation and environment during the Hoabinhian (late Stone Age) from Ban Kao Caves, Thailand, K.Pyramarn; the taming of the rain forests - a model for Late Pleistocene forest exploitation in New Guinea, L.Groube; seed gathering in in land Australia - current evidence from seed-grinders on the antiquity of the ethnohistorical pattern of exploitation, M.A.Smith; adaptation of prehistoric hunter-gatherers to the high Andes - the changing role of plant resources, D.M.Pearsall. Part 4 Agrarian plant exploitation - the domestication and diffusion of crops and crop assemblages: the tropical African cereals, J.R.Harlan; factors responsible for the ennoblement of African yams - inferences from experiments in yam domestication, V.E.Chikwendu and C.E.A.Okezie; domestication of the southwest Asian neolithic crop assemblage of cerials, pulses and flax - the evidence from living plants, D.Zohary; origin and domestication of the southwest Asian grain legumes, G.Ladizinsky. (Part contents)