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9781879621374

Discerning Palates of the Past

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    9781879621374

  • ISBN10:

    1879621371

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-03-01
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Table of Contents

List of Figures
vii
List of Tables
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Plants, Past, and Present: An Introduction
1(2)
Archaeological Context and the Scope of Inquiry
3(15)
Geography and Environmental Setting
3(1)
Indus Valley Tradition and the Gujarat Harappan
4(9)
Deciphering the Problem
13(3)
An Integrated Approach
16(2)
The Living Past: Ethnographic Crop Processing Studies
18(37)
Summer Cultivation of Type A Crops (Sorghum bicolor and Pennisetum typhoides)
19(19)
Opportunistic Flood Plain Cultivation of Type B Crops (Panicum miliare)
38(13)
Crop Processing Stages and Archaeological Interpretation
51(2)
Summary
53(2)
The Search for Patterns: Ethnographic Modeling and Archaeological Relevance
55(53)
Methodology and Data Analysis
56(4)
Type A Crops: Summer Cultivation of Sorghum bicolor and Pennisetum typhoides
60(24)
Type B Crops: Opportunistic Cultivation of Panicum miliare
84(11)
Type B Crop Plant with Weeds (Setaria tomentosa)
95(5)
Implications for Archaeological Interpretation
100(1)
Methodological Issues
100(3)
Summary of Ethnographic Modeling
103(3)
Conclusions
106(2)
Going Beyond Carbonized Seed Lists: Paleoethnobotanical Research
108(24)
Archaeological Background of Oriyo Timbo and Babar Kot
108(3)
Archaeobotanical Methods and Sampling Procedures
111(1)
Oriyo Timbo Archaeobotanical Results
112(8)
Babar Kot Archaeobotanical Results
120(11)
Summary of the Archaeobotanical Research
131(1)
If the Threshing Floor Could Talk: Testing the Ethnographic Models
132(22)
Archaeological Application of Ethnographic Models
132(2)
Oriyo Timbo
134(8)
Babar Kot
142(11)
Summary of Archaeological Modeling
153(1)
Modeling Animal Diet and Fodder Acquisition
154(9)
Carbon Isotope Analysis and Results
154(2)
Predictive Modeling of Alternate Fodder Emphases
156(4)
Animal Feeding Model for Gujarat Harappan
160(3)
Conclusion: Discerning Palates, Plant Usage and Subsistence
163(4)
Glossary 167(2)
References 169

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