The Prehistory of Food | Appetites for Change | Chris Gosden, Jon G. H

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The Prehistory of Food

ABSTRACT

The Prehistory of Food sets subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributors with a scientific and biological expertise as well as those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change, and includes a wide range of case studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I Food and Culture

chapter 1|21 pages

Cash-crops before cash: organic consumables and trade

chapter 2|24 pages

Cultural implications of crop introductions in Andean prehistory

chapter 3|24 pages

Uywaña, the house and its indoor landscape: oblique approaches to, and beyond, dosmestication

chapter 4|16 pages

Of water and oil: exploitation of natural resources and social change in eastern Arabia

chapter 5|28 pages

Plant exploitation among the Nukak hunter-gatherers of Amazonia: between ecology and ideology

part |2 pages

Part II Introductions

chapter 6|10 pages

Food processing technology: its role in inhibiting or promoting change in staple foods

chapter 7|8 pages

Subsistence changes in India and Pakistan: theNeolithic and Chalcolithic from the point of view of plan use today

chapter 8|19 pages

Megalithic monuments and the introduction of rice into Korea

chapter 9|18 pages

The dispersal of domesticated plants into north-eastern Japan

chapter 10|12 pages

Native Americans and animal husbandry in the North American colony of Spanish Florida

part |2 pages

Part III Food and the Landscape

chapter 11|31 pages

The meaning of ditches: deconstructing the social landscapes of New Guinea, Kuk, Phase 4

chapter 12|19 pages

Different histories: a common inheritance for Papua New Guinea and Austrialia?

chapter 13|18 pages

From the swamp to the terrace: intensification of horticultural practices in New Caledonia, from first settlement to European contact

chapter 14|18 pages

Warfare and intensive agriculture in Fiji

chapter 15|18 pages

Whose land is it anyway? An historical examination of land tenure and agriculture in northern Jordan

chapter 16|15 pages

Getting a life: stability and change in social and subsistence systems on the North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in later prehistory

chapter 17|11 pages

Interaction of maritime and agricultural adaptations in the Japan Sea basin

chapter 18|16 pages

Invisible pastoralists: an inquiry into the origins of nomadic pastoralism in the West African Sahel

chapter 19|25 pages

Evidence for agricultural change in the Balikh basin, northern Syria

part |2 pages

Part IV Plants and People

chapter 20|18 pages

Tracking the banana: its significance in early agriculture

chapter 21|21 pages

The puzzle of the late emergence of domesticated sorghum in the Nile valley

chapter 22|19 pages

The impact of maize on subsistence systems in South America: an example from the Jama River valley, coastal Ecuador

chapter 23|25 pages

Starch in sediments: a new approach to the study of subsistence and land use in Papua New Guinea

chapter 24|16 pages

Traditional seed cropping systems in the temperate Old World: models for antiquity

chapter 25|22 pages

Agrarian change and the beginnings of cultivation in the Near East: evidence from wild progenitors, experimental cultivation and arshaeobotanical data