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Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups
and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and
essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet
access to plant use before the Neolithic can be challenging. In
some places, plant remains rarely survive and reconstructing plant
use in pre-agrarian contexts needs to be conducted using a range of
different techniques. This lack of visible evidence has led to
plants being undervalued, both in terms of their contribution to
diet and as raw materials. This book outlines why the role of
plants is required for a better understanding of hominin and
pre-agrarian human life, and offers a variety of ways in which this
can be achieved. Wild Harvest is divided into three sections. In
section 1 each chapter focuses on a specific feature of plant use
by humans; this covers the role of carbohydrates, the need for and
effects of processing methods, the role of plants in
self-medication among apes, plants as raw materials and the extent
of evidence for plant use prior to the development of agriculture
in the Near East. Section 2 comprises seven chapters which cover
different methods available to obtain information on plants, and
the third section has five chapters, each covering a topic related
to ethnography, ethnohistory or ethnoarchaeology, and how these can
be used to improve our understanding of the role of plants in the
pre-agrarian past.
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