Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation (Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology)

Hardcover, xxxiv + 733 pages, NOT ex-library. Sparse mild creasing, else VG: clean, bright, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions/stamps, firmly bound. Boards show shelfwear, short creases to edges. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Evolution of Plant Exploitation [Evolutionary Continuum of People-Plant Interaction; Explanation of Domestication: Darwinism & its Role; Domestication & Domiculture: Northern Australia; Environment Domestication]; Plant Exploitation in Non-Agrarian Contexts: Ethnographic Witness [Wild-Grass Seed Harvesting: (Sub-) Sahara Africa; Australian Aboriginal Seed Grinding & Archaeological Record: Case Study, Western Desert; Gidjingali Plant Foods: Ethnographic & Archaeological Perspectives on Tuber & Seed Exploitation; Plant Usage & Management: Southwest Australian Aboriginal Societies; Ethnoecological Observations on Wild & Cultivated Rice & Yams: Northeastern Thailand; Intensive Plant Husbandry: Kumeyaay, Southern California; Plant-Food Processing: Dietary Quality Implications]; Plant Exploitation in Pre-Agrarian Contexts: Archaeological Evidence [Grotta dell'Uzzo Sicily: New Evidence for Transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic Subsistence, Southern Europe; Late Palaeolithic Plant Foods from Wadi Kubbaniya Upper Egypt: Dietary Diversity, Infant Weaning & Seasonality in Riverine Environment; Plant-Food Economy During Epipalaeolithic Period at Tell Abu Hureyra Syria: Dietary Diversity, Seasonality, Modes of Exploitation; Mesolithic Exploitation of Wild Plants, Sri Lanka: Achaeobotanical Study, Beli-Lena Cave Site; Plant Exploitation & Environment During Hoabinhian, Ban Kao Caves Thailand; Taming of Rain Forests: Model for Late Pleistocene Forest Exploitation, New Guinea; Seed Gathering in Inland Australia: Current Evidence from Seed-Grinders on the Antiquity of Ethnohistorical Pattern of Exploitation; Adaptation of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers to the High Andes: Changing Role of Plant Resources]; Agrarian Plant Exploitation: Domestication & Diffusion of Crops & Crop Assemblages [Tropical African Cereals; Factors Responsible for Ennoblement of African Yams: Inferences from Experiments in Yam Domestication; Domestication of Southwest Asian Neolithic Crop Assemblage of Cereals, Pulses & Flax: Evidence from Living Plants; Origin & Domestication of Southwest Asian Grain Legumes; Cryptic Anatomical Characters as Evidence of Early Cultivation in Grain Legumes; Domestication & Spread of Cultivated Rices; Crops of the Pacific: New Evidence from Chemical Analysis of Organic Residues in Pottery; Cytological & Genetical Evidence on Domestication & Diffusion of Crops within the Americas; Maize: Domestication, Racial Evolution, Spread; Andean Maize: Origins & Domestication; Cucurbitaceae Domestication: Cucurbita & Lagenaria; Domestication of Roots & Tubers, American Tropics; Chemical-Ecological Model of Root & Tuber Domestication, the Andes]; Agrarian Plant Exploitation: Agricultural Systems Evolution [From Foraging to Food Production: North-Eastern Venezuela & Caribbean; Non-Affluent Foragers: Resource Availability, Seasonal Shortages, Emergence of Agriculture in Panamanian Tropical Forests; Early Plant Cultivation in Eastern Woodlands, North America; Agricultural Intensification & Ridged-Field Cultivation: Prehistoric Upper Midwest of North America; Agriculture Spread in Western Europe: Indo-European & (Non-)Pre-Indo-European Linguistic Evidence; Agricultural Evolution North of Black Sea: Neolithic to Iron Age; Transition from Foraging to Farming, Southwest Asia; Early Farming Communities, Jordan Valley; Prehistoric Agriculture in China; Coastal Adaptation, Sedentism, Domestication: Socio-Economic Intensification Model, Prehistoric Southeast Asia; Transition from Stone to Steel: Prehistoric Swidden Agricultural Technology of Kantu' of Kalimantan Indonesia; New Guinea Agriculture: Origins & Development; Prehistoric Maori Agriculture: Diversity & Change]. …