The Exploitation of Plant Resources in Ancient Africa

by Van Der Veen, Marijke; International Workshop on Archaeobotany in Northern Africa 1997 leice

• ISBN13: 9780306461095
• ISBN10: 0306461099
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This volume presents a completely new and 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(11)
Marijke van der Veen
Sorghum in the Economy of the Early Neolithic Nomadic Tribes at Nabta Playa, Southern Egypt	11	(22)
Krystyna Wasylikowa
Jeff Dahlberg
Wild Grasses as `Neolithic' Food Resources in the Eastern Sahara: A Review of the Evidence from Egypt	33	(14)
Hala Barakat
Ahmed Gamal el-Din Fahmy
The Use of Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry in the Identification of Ancient Sorghum Seeds	47	(8)
Edward Biehl
Fred Wendorf
Warren Landry
Asrat Desta
Leilani Watrous
Ancient DNA from Sorghum: The Evidence from Qasr Ibrim	55	(8)
Egyptian Nubia Peter Rowley-Conwy
William Deakin
Charles H. Shaw
Missing Plant Foods? Where Is the Archaeobotanical Evidence for Sorghum and Finger Millet in East Africa?	63	(10)
Ruth Young
Gill Thompson
Plant Food Production in the West African Sahel: New Evidence	73	(8)
Katharina Neumann
The Exploitation of Wild and Domesticated Food Plants at Settlement Mounds in North-East Nigeria (1800 cal BC to Today)	81	(8)
Marlies Klee
Barbara Zach
Indications for Agroforestry: Archaeobotanical Remains of Crops and Woody Plants from Medieval Saouga, Burkina Faso	89	(12)
Stefanie Kahlheber
Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to the Study of Prehistoric Agriculture in the Highlands of Ethiopia	101	(22)
Catherine D'Andrea
Diane Lyons
Mitiku Haile
Ann Butler
The Ethnobotany of Lathyrus sativus L. in the Highlands of Ethiopia	123	(14)
Ann Butler
Zelealem Tesfay
Catherine D'Andrea
Diane Lyons
The Agricultural Foundation of the Aksumite Empire, Ethiopia: An Interim Report	137	(12)
Sheila Boardman
Wine Production and Consumption in Pharaonic Egypt	149	(22)
Mary Anne Murray
The Food and Fodder Supply to Roman Quarry Settlements in the Eastern Desert of Egypt	171	(14)
Marijke van der Veen
Trade and Subsistence at the Roman Port of Berenike, Red Sea Coast, Egypt	185	(14)
Rene Cappers
The Use of Imported and Local Wood Species at the Roman Port of Berenike, Red Sea Coast, Egypt	199	(6)
Caroline Vermeeren
Charcoal from West African Savanna Sites: Questions of Identification and Interpretation	205	(16)
Katharina Neumann
Fuels for the Furnace: Recent and Prehistoric Ironworking in Uganda and Beyond	221	(20)
Gill Thompson
Ruth Young
Reconstructing the Woody Resources of the Medieval Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan	241	(20)
Caroline R. Cartwright
The Selection of Plant Fibers and Wood in the Manufacture of Organic Household Items from the El-Gabalein Area, Egypt	261	(12)
Nahed Mourad Waly
Index	273