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Title Origins of African plant domestication / editors, Jack R. Harlan, Jan M.J. de Wet, Ann B.L. Stemler.

Publication Info. The Hague : Mouton ; Chicago : Distributed by Aldine, [1976]
©1976

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 498 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
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Bibliography
Physical Medium polychrome
Series World anthropology
World anthropology.
Bibliography 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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Subject Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Africa -- Congresses.
Agriculture, Prehistoric.
Africa.
Agriculture -- Origin -- Congresses.
Agriculture -- Origin.
Plants, Cultivated -- Africa -- Origin -- Congresses.
Plants, Cultivated.
Africa -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Antiquities.
Africa -- Antiguedades.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Harlan, Jack R. (Jack Rodney)
De Wet, Jan M. J.
Stemler, Ann B. L.
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9 : 1973 : Chicago)
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)
3110806371 (electronic book)
0202900339 (Aldine)
9780202900339 (Aldine)