New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2016
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
978-0-8165-3422-7 (ISBN)

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Profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the value of the ancient crop record to inform the present.

New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the value of the ancient crop record to inform the present. "This volume represents an exciting new vista for archaeobotanists, including an implied challenge to other specialists to think about the modern applications of their scholarship."-American Antiquity

Paul E. Minnis is a professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Minnis's books include Biodiversity and Native America, Social Adaption to Food Stress, Ethnobotany: A Reader, The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Excavating Medio Period Communities of Northwestern Chihuahua, Casas Grandes and Its Hinterland: Prehistoric Regional Organization in Northwest Mexico, People and Plants in Ancient Western North America, and People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America, among others.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	25 photos, 22 illustrations, 13 table
Verlagsort	Tucson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 220 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8165-3422-5 / 0816534225
ISBN-13	978-0-8165-3422-7 / 9780816534227
Zustand	Neuware