Origins of African Plant Domestication

Jack R. Harlan

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9789027978295
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110806373
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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Table of contents

• General Editor’s Preface
• Preface
• INTRODUCTION
• Plant Domestication and Indigenous African Agriculture
• SECTION ONE: BACKGROUND THEORY
• A Note on the Problem of Basic Causes
• Archaeology and Domestication
• SECTION TWO: BACKGROUND PALEOCLIMATES
• Paleoecological Background in Connection with the Origin of Agriculture in Africa
• SECTION THREE: BACKGROUND ARCHAEOLOGY
• Prehistoric Populations and Pressures Favoring Plant Domestication in Africa
• Early Crops in Africa: A Review of the Evidence
• Early Food Production in Northern Africa as Seen from Southwestern Asia
• SECTION FOUR: REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
• Archaeological Data on the Origins of Cultivation in the Southwestern Sahara and Their Implications for West Africa
• The Kintampo Culture and Its Place in the Economic Prehistory of West Africa
• History of Crops and Peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900
• The Use of Ground Grain During the Late Paleolithic of the Lower Nile Valley, Egypt
• SECTION FIVE: BOTANICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE
• The Origins and Migrations of Crops in Tropical Africa
• Traditional Systems of Plant Food Production and the Origins of Agriculture in West Africa
• Social Anthropology and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Land Use Systems in Tropical Africa: A Cautionary Case Study from Zambia
• The Origins and Domestication of Yams in Africa
• African Cereals: Eleusine, Fonio, Black Fonio, Teff, Brachiaria paspalum Pennisetum, and African Rice
• Variability in Sorghum biocolor
• The Races of Sorghum in Africa
• Biographical Notes
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects