Origins of African plant domestication /

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Corporate Author: International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Other Authors: Harlan, Jack R., De Wet, Jan M. J., Stemler, Ann B. L.
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: The Hague : Chicago : Mouton ; Distributed by Aldine, ©1976.
Series:World anthropology.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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.