The origins of agriculture : an international perspective

Author(s)

• Cowan, C. Wesley
• Watson, Patty Jo
• Benco, Nancy L.

Bibliographic Information

The origins of agriculture : an international perspective

edited by C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson ; with the assistance of Nancy L. Benco

University of Alabama Press, c2006

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992

"Most of the chapters were originally prepared for a symposium held in 1985 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Los Angeles"--P. xiii

Contents of Works

• Prehistoric plant domestication in East Asia / Gary W. Crawford
• The origins of plant cultivation in the Near East / Naomi F. Miller
• Indigenous African agriculture / Jack R. Harlan
• The origins of crop agriculture in Europe / Robin W. Dennell
• Prehistoric plant husbandry in eastern North America / Bruce D. Smith
• Earliest plant cultivation in the desert borderlands of North America / Paul E. Minnis
• The origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica and Central America / Emily McClung de Tapia
• The origins of plant cultivation in South America / Deborah M. Pearsall
• Some concluding remarks / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson

Details

• NCID: BA77845373
• ISBN:
  • 0817353496
• LCCN: 2005035142
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Tuscaloosa
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 224 p.
• Size: 28 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN779.A4
  • DC22 : 630/.93
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Agriculture -- Origin -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Prehistoric peoples -- Food -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Plant remains (Archaeology) -- Congresses