The Prehistory of Food: Appetites for Change

Half title......Page 2
Series title......Page 3
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 11
Tables......Page 15
Contributors......Page 16
Preface......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Part I Food and Culture......Page 29
1. Cash-crops before cash: organic consumables and trade......Page 31
2. Cultural implications of crop introductions in Andean prehistory......Page 52
3. Uywaña, the house and its indoor landscape: oblique approaches to, and beyond, dosmestication......Page 76
4. Of water and oil: exploitation of natural resources and social change in eastern Arabia......Page 100
5. Plant exploitation among the Nukak hunter-gatherers of Amazonia: between ecology and ideology......Page 116
Part II Introductions......Page 144
6. Food processing technology: its role in inhibiting or promoting change in staple foods......Page 146
7. Subsistence changes in India and Pakistan: theNeolithic and Chalcolithic from the point of view of plan use today......Page 156
8. Megalithic monuments and the introduction of rice into Korea......Page 164
9. The dispersal of domesticated plants into north-eastern Japan......Page 183
10. Native Americans and animal husbandry in the North American colony of Spanish Florida......Page 201
Part III Food and the Landscape......Page 213
11. The meaning of ditches: deconstructing the social landscapes of New Guinea, Kuk, Phase 4......Page 215
12. Different histories: a common inheritance for Papua New Guinea and Austrialia?......Page 246
13. From the swamp to the terrace: intensification of horticultural practices in New Caledonia, from first settlement to European contact......Page 265
14. Warfare and intensive agriculture in Fiji......Page 283
15. Whose land is it anyway? An historical examination of land tenure and agriculture in northern Jordan......Page 301
16. Getting a life: stability and change in social and subsistence systems on the North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in later prehistory......Page 319
17. Interaction of maritime and agricultural adaptations in the Japan Sea basin......Page 334
18. Invisible pastoralists: an inquiry into the origins of nomadic pastoralism in the West African Sahel......Page 345
19. Evidence for agricultural change in the Balikh basin, northern Syria......Page 361
Part IV Plants and People......Page 386
20. Tracking the banana: its significance in early agriculture......Page 388
21. The puzzle of the late emergence of domesticated sorghum in the Nile valley......Page 406
22. The impact of maize on subsistence systems in South America: an example from the Jama River valley, coastal Ecuador......Page 427
23. Starch in sediments: a new approach to the study of subsistence and land use in Papua New Guinea......Page 446
24. Traditional seed cropping systems in the temperate Old World: models for antiquity......Page 471
25. Agrarian change and the beginnings of cultivation in the Near East: evidence from wild progenitors, experimental cultivation and arshaeobotanical data......Page 487
Index......Page 509