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1 online resource (xiii, 498 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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World anthropology
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World anthropology.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Africa -- Congresses.
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Agriculture, Prehistoric. |
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Africa. |
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Agriculture -- Origin -- Congresses.
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Agriculture -- Origin. |
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Plants, Cultivated -- Africa -- Origin -- Congresses.
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Plants, Cultivated. |
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Africa -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
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Antiquities. |
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Africa -- Antiguedades. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added 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 (9 : 1973 : Chicago)
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Other Form: |
Print version: Origins of African plant domestication. The Hague : Mouton ; Chicago : Distributed by Aldine, ©1976 9780202900339 (DLC) 77353651 (OCoLC)2717034 |
ISBN |
9783110806373 (electronic book) |
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3110806371 (electronic book) |
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0202900339 (Aldine) |
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9780202900339 (Aldine) |
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