Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 498 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations |
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World anthropology |
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World anthropology.
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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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Africa -- Congresses
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Agriculture -- Origin -- Congresses
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Plants, Cultivated -- Africa -- Origin -- Congresses
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Ethnology -- Africa.
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Domestication.
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Traditional farming.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
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Traditional farming
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Ethnology
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Domestication
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Agriculture -- Origin
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Agriculture, Prehistoric
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Antiquities
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Plants, Cultivated -- Origin
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SUBJECT |
Africa -- Antiquities -- Congresses
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Africa
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Afrika
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Harlan, Jack R. (Jack Rodney)
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De Wet, Jan M. J.
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Stemler, Ann B. L.
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International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago, Ill.)
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ISBN |
9783110806373 |
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3110806371 |
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