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Originally published 1989.
Foraging and Farming is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. Foraging and Farming develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. It modifies the conceptual dichotomy between "hunter-gatherers" and "farmers", viewing human exploitation of plant resources as a global evolutionary process which incorporated the beginnings of cultivation and crop domestication. The studies throughout Foraging and Farming come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. Foraging and Farming is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists and geographers.
Foreword P.J. Ucko
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation: Concepts and Processes
1. An Evolutionary Continuum of People-plant Interaction D.R. Harris
2. Darwinism and its Role in the Explanation of Domestication D. Rindos
3. Domestication and Domiculture in Northern Australia: A Social Perspective A.K. Chase
4. The Domestication of Environment D.E. Yen
Part 2: Plant Exploitation in Non-agrarian Contexts: The Ethnographic Witness
5. Wild-grass Seed Harvesting in the Sahara and Sub-Sahara of Africa J.R. Harlan
6. Australian Aboriginal Seed Grinding and its Archaeological Record: A Case Study from the Western Desert S. Cane
7. Plant Foods of the Gidjingali: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives from Northern Australia on Tuber and Seed Exploitation R. Jones and B. Meehan
8. Plant Usage and Management in Southwest Australian Aboriginal Societies S.J. Hallamm
9. Ethnoecological Observations on Wild and Cultivated Rice and Yams in Northeastern Thailand, J.C. White
10. An Example of Intensive Plant Husbandry: The Kumeyaay of Southern California F.C. Shipek
11. Plant-food Processing: Implications for Dietary Quality A.B. Stahl
Part 3: Plant Exploitation in Per-agrarian Contexts: The Archaeological Evidence
12. Plant Exploitation at Grotta dell'Uzzo, Sicily: New Evidence for the Transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic Subsistence in Southern Europe L. Constantini
13. Late Palaeolithic Plant Foods from Wadi Kubbaniya in Upper Egypt: Dietary Diversity, Infant Weaning and Seasonality in a Riverine Environment G.C. Hillman
14. Plant-food Economy During the Epipalaeolithic Period at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria: Dietary Diversity, Seasonality and Modes of Exploitation G.C. Hillman et al
15. Mesolithic Exploitation of Wild Plants in Sri Lanka: Achaeobotanical Study at the Cave Site of Beli-Lena M.D. Kajale
16. New Evidence on Plant Exploitation and Environment During the Hoabinhian (Late Stone Age) from Ban Kao Caves, Thailand K. Pyramarn
17. The Taming of the Rain Forests: A Model for Late Pleistocene Forest Exploitation in New Guinea L. Groube
18. Seed Gathering in Inland Australia: Current Evidence from Seed-grinders on the Antiquity of the Ethnohistorical Pattern of Exploitation M.A. Smith
19. Adaptation of Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers to the High Andes: The Changing Role of Plant Resources D.M. Pearsall
Part 4: Agrarian Plant Exploitation: The Domestication and Diffusion of Crops and Crop Assemblages
20. The Tropical African Cereals J.R. Harlan
21. Factors Responsible for the Ennoblement of African Yams: Inferences from Experiments in Yam Domestication V.E. Chikwendu and C.E.A. Okezie
22. Domestication of the Southwest Asian Neolithic Crop Assemblage of Cereals, Pulses and Flax: The Evidence from Living Plants D. Zohary
23. Origin and Domestication of the Southwest Asian Grain Legumes G. Ladizinsky
24. Cryptic Anatomical Characters as Evidence of Early Cultivation in the Grain Legumes (Pulses) A. Butler
25. Domestication and the Spread of the Cultivated Rices T.T. Chang
26. Crops of the Pacific: New Evidence from the Chemical Analysis of Organic Residues in Pottery H.E. Hill & J. Evans
27. Cytological and Genetical Evidence on the Domestication and Diffusion of Crops within the Americas B. Pickersgill
28. Maize: Domestication, Racial Evolution, and Spread G. Wilkes
29. Andean Maize: Its Origins and Domestication D. Bonavia & A. Grobman
30. Domestication of Cucurbitaceae: Cucurbita and Lagenaria C.B. Heiser, Jr
31. The Domestication of Roots and Tubers in the American Tropics J.G. Hawkes
32. A Chemical-ecological Model of Root and Tuber Domestication in the Andes T. Johns
Part 5: Agrarian Plant Exploitation: The Evolution of Agricultural Systems
33. From Foraging to Food Production in North-eastern Venezuela and the Caribbean M. Sanoja
34. Non-affluent Foragers: Resource Availability, Seasonal Shortages and the Emergence of Agriculture in Panamanian Tropical Forests D.R. Piperno
35. Early Plant Cultivation in the Eastern Woodlands of North America P.J. Watson
36. Agricultural Intensification and Ridged-field Cultivation in the Prehistoric Upper Midwest of North America J.P. Gallagher
37. The Spread of Agriculture in Western Europe: Indo-European and (Non-)Pre-Indo-European Linguistic Evidence T.L. Markey
38. Agricultural Evolution North of the Black Sea from the Neolithic to the Iron Age Z.V. Yanushevich
39. The Transition from Foraging to Farming in Southwest Asia: Present Problems and Future Directions A.M.T. Moore
40. Early Farming Communities in the Jordan Valley O. Bar-Yosef & M.E. Kislev
41. Prehistoric Agriculture in China An Zhimin
42. Coastal Adaptation, Sedentism, and Domestivation: A Model for Socio-economic Intensification in Prehistoric Southeast Asia C. Higham & B. Maloney
43. The Transition from Stone to Steel in the Prehistoric Swidden Agricultural Technology of the Kantu' of Kalimantan, Indonesia M.R. Dove
44. The Origins and Development of New Guinea Agriculture J. Golson
45. Gardens in the South: Diversity and Change in Prehistoric Maori Agriculture S. Bulmer
