With over 60 contributions spanning 500 pages and more than 40 authors from a dozen countries, the volume has the potential to make an indigestible meal. That it is not can be attributed in no small part to the generally high standard of language editing and, unusually for such a collection of papers, the provision of a detailed index. EARTH ... Read more1, along with its two companion volumes, will form an important and useful collection that should appear on every archaeobotanist’s bookshelves. Or should that be palaeoethnobotanist’s bookshelves?
Antiquity
This book amply meets the proposed objectives, finding a new common ground for integrating different approaches, and viewing agriculture from the standpoint of the human actors involved.
European Journal of Archaeology
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