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The Exploitation of Plant Resources in Ancient Africa
Marijke Van Der Veen (Ed.)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Veen, Marijke van der. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; HD; PN; PSXE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 518.
This volume presents a completely new and very substantial body of information about the origin of agriculture and plant use in Africa. All the evidence is very recent and for the first time all this archaeobotanical evidence is brought together in one volume (at present the information is unpublished or published in many disparate journals, confer- ence reports, monographs, site reports, etc. ). Early publications concerned with the origins of African plant domestication relied almost exclusively on inferences made from the modem distribution of the wild progenitors of African cultivars; there existed virtually no archaeobotanical data at that time. Even ... Read more
This volume presents a completely new and very substantial body of information about the origin of agriculture and plant use in Africa. All the evidence is very recent and for the first time all this archaeobotanical evidence is brought together in one volume (at present the information is unpublished or published in many disparate journals, confer- ence reports, monographs, site reports, etc. ). Early publications concerned with the origins of African plant domestication relied almost exclusively on inferences made from the modem distribution of the wild progenitors of African cultivars; there existed virtually no archaeobotanical data at that time. Even ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
553g
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441933164
SKU
V9781441933164
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