Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives from Paleoethnobotanical Data

This volume contributes to the emerging topic of social paleoethnobotany with a series of papers exploring dynamic aspects of past social life, particularly the day-to-day practices and politics of procuring, preparing, and consuming plants. The contributors to this volume illustrate how one can bri...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Sayre, Matthew P. (Editor), Bruno, Maria C. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Environment.
Archaeology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319528496
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-52849-6
Physical DescriptionX, 180 p. 29 illus., 22 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Social Paleoethnobotany: New contributions to Archaeological Theory and Practice (Maria Bruno and Matthew Sayre)
  • Chapter 2. Integrating archaeological data toward a better understanding of food plant choices and territory exploitation in the Northwestern European Early Neolithic: The case of Remicourt "En Bia Flo II" (Alexandre Chevalier and Dominique Bosquet)
  • Chapter 3. Cultigen Chenopods in the Americas: A Hemispherical Perspective (Gayle J. Fritz, Maria C. Bruno, BrieAnna S. Langlie, Bruce D. Smith, and Logan Kistler)
  • Chapter 4. Rethinking the Role of Wild Resources in Agriculturalist Societies: Archives from Rockshelter Cases of Northwestern Argentina (M. Alejandra Korstanje)
  • Chapter 5. Exploring Culinary Practices through GIS Modeling at Joya de Cerén, El Salvador (Alan Farahani, Katherine L. Chiou, Rob Q. Cuthrell, Anna Harkey, Shanti Morell-Hart, Christine A. Hastorf, and Payson D. Sheets)
  • Chapter 6 .Plant Use and the Separation of Ritual and Domestic Space at Conchopata, Peru: A Middle Horizon Site (William Whitehead and Matthew Sayre)
  • Chapter 7. Ritual Time: The Struggle to Pinpoint the Temporality of Ritual Practice using Archaeobotanical Data (Christopher T. Morehart)
  • Chapter 8. A Compelling Intersectionality: Paleoethnobotany, Social Theory and Feminist Commitments (Margaret Conkey)
  • Chapter 9. Paleoethnobotany beyond Diet, Environment, and Ecology (Deborah Pearsall). .

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