Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany: Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone

ISBN-13: 9780905853383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 206 str.

Sarah L. R. Mason; Jon G. Hather

Opis

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and more distant past. The book compromises sixteen papers covering aspects of the archaeobotany of wild plants ranging across the northern hemisphere from Japan, across America, Europe and into the Near East. Sites examined span the Upper Palaeolithic to the recent past and demonstrate how such studies can extend our understanding of human interaction with plants throughout our history.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, Jon G.Hather, Sarah L. R.Mason; Chapter 2 The great want, MichaelDeal, AaronButt; Chapter 3 Late Prehistoric plant resource intensification in the eastern San Francisco Bay area, EricWohlgemuth; Chapter 4 Perusing the pits, Sandra L Peacock; Chapter 5 Plants and pithouses, Dana Lepofsky; Chapter 6 Patterns in the prehistoric use of non-agrarian botanical resources in the Long Island and Block Island Sound region of eastern North America, David J.Bernstein; Chapter 7 Archaeobotany of an early Ertebølle (Late Mesolithic) site at Halsskov, Zealand, Denmark, David Earle Robinson, Jan AndreasHarild; Chapter 8 Mesolithic plant use in the western Pyrenees, LydiaZapata, AnaCava, MaríaJosé Iriarte, José PabloBaraybar, Concepción DeLa Rua; Chapter 9 Preliminary results of an archaeobotanical analysis of Mesolithic sites in the Veenkolonien, Province of Groningen, the Netherlands, David Perry; Chapter 10 Archaeological charcoal used for environmental reconstruction, LucindaMcWeeney; Chapter 11 More on acorn eating during the Natufian, K. Renee Barlow, MelissaHeck; Chapter 12 Nut exploitation in Jomon society, RyuzaburoTakahashi, Leo AoiHosoya; Chapter 13 Reed tents and straw baskets? Plant resources during the Magdalenian of Southwest Germany, Linda R.Owen; Chapter 14 Reconstructing the palaeoecology of Ohalo II an Early Epipalaeolithic site in Israel, M. E. Kislev, O. Simchoni; Chapter 15 Plants and subsistence of hunter-gatherers in the prehistoric East European Plain (Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Sub-Neolithic), Pavel M. Dolukhanov; Chapter 16 The archaeobotany of European hunter-gatherers, Sarah L. R. Mason, Jon G. Hather, Gordon C. Hillman;

O autorze

Mason, Sarah L.R.; Hather, Jon G