Plants and People: Choices and Diversity through Time

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Title Page
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Contents
Foreword
Preface
Section 1 Methodological Approaches to Plant Use Diversity
	Chapter 1: Factors and Issues in Plant Choice
	Chapter 2: Exploring Diversity in the Past and in the Present
		2.1. Exploring Diversity in the Past: an Introduction
		2.2. Exploring Diversity Through Archaeobotany
		2.3. Exploring Diversity Through Written Sources
		2.4. Representing Nature: Images and Social Dynamics in Ancient Societies
		2.5. Exploring Diversity in the Present: Ethnobotany Studies
		2.6. conclusions
Section 2 Food Plants
	Chapter 3: Crop Diversity Through Time
		3.1. Introduction
		3.2. Crop Diversity and Choice in Prehistoric Southeastern Europe: Cultural and Environmental Factors Shaping the Archaeobotanical Record of Northern Greece and Bulgaria
		3.3. Crop Diversity Between Central Europe and the Mediterranean: Aspects of Northern Italian Agriculture
		3.4. Crop Diversity in Southwestern Central Europe from the Neolithic Onwards
		3.5. Crop Diversity in the Neolithic of the Iberian Peninsula
		3.6. Choice of a Crop and its Underlying Reasons: Examples from Western Central Europe 500 BCE–CE 900
		3.7. Crops and Agricultural Developments in Western Europe
		3.8. Crop Diversity and Choice in the Prehistoric American Southwest
		3.9. Processes of Prehistoric Crop Diversification in the Lake Titicaca Basin of the South American Andes
		3.10. Conclusions
	Chapter 4: Adding Diversity. Between Occasional Food and Speculative Productions: Diversity of Fruit Uses, Diversity of Practices Regarding Fruit Tree Cultivation
		4.1. Introduction
		4.2. Acorn Use in Native California
		4.3. A Wild Solution to Resilience and Provision: The Case of Prosopis spp. on the Peruvian North Coast
		4.4. Before the Empire: Prehistoric Fruit Gathering and Cultivation in Northern Italy
		4.5. Citrus (Rutaceae) was Present in the Western Mediterranean in Antiquity
		4.6. From Secondary to Speculative Production? The Protohistory History of Viticulture in Southern France
		4.7. Fruit as Staple Food: the Role of Fig (Ficus Carica L.) during the Pre-Hispa nic Period of the Canary Islands, Spain (from the 3rd–2nd Centuries BCE to the 15th Century CE)
		4.8. Beyond the Divide Between Wild and Domesticated: Spa tiality, Domesticity and Practices Pertaining to Fig (Ficus ca rica L.) and Olive (Olea europa ea L.) Agroecosystems among Jbala Communities in Northern Morocco
		4.9. Conclusions
	Chapter 5: Food Plants from the Wild
		5.1. Introduction: Wild Food Plants in the Present and Past
		5.2. Gathering in a New Environment: the Use of Wild Food Plants during the First ColoniSation of the Canary Islands, Spain (2nd–3rd century BCE to 15th century CE)
		5.3. Wild Food Plants Traditionally Used in Spain: Regional Analysis
		5.4. Use of Wild Food Plant Resources in the Dogon Country, Mali
		5.5. Silverweed: a Food Plant on the Road from Wild to Cultivated?
		5.6. Cleome: A Wild Plant as Complement to Cultigens in Southwestern North America
		5.7. Conclusions
Section 3 Food and Beyond
	Chapter 6: A Versatile World: Examples of Diversity in Plant Use
		6.1. Introduction
		6.2. ‘Humble Plants’: Uses of Furze and Nettles in the British Isles (and Beyond)
		6.3. Versatile Hulled Wheats: Farmers ’Traditional Uses of Three Endangered Crop Species in the Western Mediterranean
		6.4. Use of Crop-Processing By-Products for Tempering in Earthen Construction Techniques
		6.5. Uses of the Wild Grass Ampelodesmos Mauritanica in Northwestern Tunisia Today
		6.6. uses of the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus L.) in the west Mediterranean region: an example from Sardinia, Italy
		6.7. Ancient and Modern Boat Caulking: Use of Oleoresins in Tropical Asia
		6.8. Conclusions
	Chapter 7: Plants Used in Ritual Offerings and in Festive Contexts
		7.1. introduction
		7.2. Hidden Stone – A Unique Bread Offering from an Early Medieval Cremation Grave at Lovö, Sweden
		7.3. Ceremonial Foodstuffs from Prehistoric Burnt-Offering Places in the Alpine Region
		7.4. Festive Use of Plants: a Diachronic Glimpse of May Day in the British Isles, France and Slightly Beyond
		7.5. Ceremonial Plants Among the Hopi in North America
		7.6. Ceremonial Plants in the Andean Region
		7.7. Conclusions
	Chapter 8: Social Status, Identity and Contexts
		8.1. Introduction
		8.2. Plants for the Ancestors: Perpetuation of Social Status and Justification of Power in a Late Formative (400–100 BCE) Andean Group
		8.3. Plants in the Eastern Iberian Iron Age: From Daily Work to the Ideological Construction of the Community
		8.4. Social Status and Plant Food Diet in Bibracte, Morvan (Burgundy, France)
		8.5. Symbol of Poverty? Children’s Evaluation of Wild Food Plants in Wayanad, India
		8.6. More than Simply Fallback Food? Social Context of Plant Use in the Northern German Neolithic
		8.7. Legal Constraints Influencing Crop Choice in Castille and Environs from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century: Some Examples
		8.8. Late Classic Maya Provisioning and Distinction in Northwestern Belize
		8.9. Conclusions
	Chapter 9: Conclusions – Plants for Thoughts
Annexes
	Contributors
	The Earth Programme
	Scientific Networking Workshops Contributing to the Contents of this Book
	Index