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Mangroves and rice, six-row brittle barley and einkorn wheat.
Ancient crops for prehistoric people. What do they have in common?
All tell us about the lives and cultures of long ago, as humans
cultivated or collected these plants for food. Exploring these and
other important plants used for millennia by humans, "Ancient
Plants and People" presents a wide-angle view of the current state
of archaeobotanical research, methods, and theories.
Food has a public and private role, and it permeates the life of
all people in a society. Food choice, production, and distribution
probably represent the most complex indicators of social life, and
thus a study of foods consumed by ancient peoples reveals many
clues about their lifestyles. But in addition to yielding
information about food production, distribution, preparation, and
consumption, plant remains recovered from archaeological sites
offer precious insights on past landscapes, human adaptation to
climate change, and the relationship between human groups and their
environment. Revealing important aspects of past human societies,
these plant-driven insights widen the spectrum of information
available to archaeologists as we seek to understand our history as
a biological and cultural species.
Often answers raise more questions. As a result, archaeobotanists
are constantly pushed to reflect on the methodological and
theoretical aspects of their discipline. The contributors discuss
timely methodological issues and engage in debates on a wide range
of topics from plant utilization in hunter-gatherers and
agriculturalists to uses of ancient DNA. Ancient Plants and People
provides a global perspective on archaeobotanical research,
particularly on the sophisticated interplay between the use of
plants and their social or environmental context.
Ancient Plants and People is a timely discussion of the global
perspectives on archaeobotany and the rich harvest of knowledge it
yields. Contributors examine the importance of plants to human
culture over time and geographic regions and what it teaches of
humans, their culture, and their landscapes.
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