The origins and spread of domestic plants in southwest Asia and Europe / / edited by Sue Colledge and James Conolly

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827122303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Walnut Creek, CA, : Left Coast Press; [London], : University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications, c2007
• ISBN: 1-315-41760-X; 1-315-41761-8; 1-59874-744-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (463 p.)
• Collana: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
• Altri autori (Persone): ColledgeSue; ConollyJames <1968->
• Disciplina: 630.93
• Soggetti: Agriculture, Prehistoric - Middle East; Agriculture, Prehistoric - Europe; Agriculture - Origin; Plants, Cultivated - Middle East; Plants, Cultivated - Europe; Plants, Cultivated - Origin
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Diverse origins: regional contributions to the genesis of farming; 2. The adoption of farming and the beginnings of the Neolithic in the Euphrates valley: cereal exploitation between the 12th and the 8th millennia cal BC; 3. East of Eden? A consideration of neolithic crop spectra in the eastern Fertile Crescent and beyond; 4. A review and synthesis of the evidence for the origins of farming on Cyprus and Crete; 5. Transitions to agriculture in the Aegean: the archaeobotanical evidence; 6. Archaeobotanical data from the early Neolithic of Bulgaria 7. The spread of cultivated plans in the region between the Carpathinas and Dniester, 6th-4th millennia cal BC; 8. Seed and fruit remains associated with neolithic origins in the Carpathian Basin; 9. Neolithic agriculture in ; Italy: as update of archaeobotanical data with particular emphasis on northern settlements; 10. Crop evolution: new evidence from the Neolithic of west Mediterranean Europe; 11. Early agriculture in central and southern Spain; 12. First farmers along the coast of the Bay of Biscay; 13. Early agriculture and subsistence in Austria: a review of neolithic plant records 14. Neolithic plant economies in the northern Alpien Freland from 5500-3500 cal BC; 15. Archaeobotanical perspectives on the beginning of agriculture north of the Alps; 16. Early farming in Slovakia: an archaeobotanical perspective; 17. Early neolithic agriculture in south Poland as reconstructed from archaeobotanical plant remains; 18. Neolithic plant husbandry in the Kujawy region of central Poland; 19. Nature or culture? Cereal crops raised by neolithic farmers on Dutch loess soils; 20. The plant remains from the Neolithic Funnel Beaker site of Wangels in Holsatia, Northern Germany 21. Exploitation of plant resources in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of southern Scandinavia: from gathering to harvesting; 22. Reconsidering the evidence towards an understanding of the social contexts of subsistence production in neolithic Britain; 23. On the importance of cereal cultivation in the British Neolithic; Index of plant names; Indes of common plant names; Index of site names; General index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this major new volume, leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe. Whereas previous overviews have focused either on Europe or on southwest Asia, this volume considers the transition from a pan-regional perspective, thus making a significant contribution to our understanding of the processes and dynamics in the transition to food production on both continents. It will be relevant to students, researchers, practitioners and instructors in archaeology, archaeobotany, agrobotany,