Rethinking Agriculture

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Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives

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Rethinking Agriculture challenges traditional views by emphasising the need to study agriculture globally on its own cultural and regional terms, rather than through Eurasian-centric frameworks. It presents new archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research from less-studied regions such as Island Southeast Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Africa, offering fresh insights into the origins and development of early agricultural practices worldwide.
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Ideal for historians, archaeologists, and scholars interested in agricultural history and global cultural studies, particularly those seeking a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of early agriculture.

This volume highlights new archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research on early agriculture in understudied non-Eurasian regions, including Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Americas and Africa, to present a more balanced view of the origins and development of agricultural practices around the globe.

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Although the need to study agriculture in different parts of the world on its “own terms” has long been recognised and reaffirmed, a tendency persists to evaluate agriculture across the globe using concepts, lines of evidence, and methods derived from Eurasian research.

However, researchers working in different regions are becoming increasingly aware of fundamental differences in the nature of, and methods employed to study, agriculture and plant exploitation practices in the past. Contributions to this volume Rethinking Agriculture consider agriculture either in terms of existing regional chronologies, in terms of techniques employed, or in terms of the concepts that frame our interpretations.

This volume highlights new archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research on early agriculture in understudied non-Eurasian regions, including Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Americas, and Africa, to present a more balanced view of the origins and development of agricultural practices around the globe.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781598742602

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 November 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Contributors:

Edited by Timothy P Denham
Edited by José Iriarte
Edited by Luc Vrydaghs

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 1040g

Pages: 476

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Timothy P. Denham is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University. His research builds upon the pioneering investigations of Jack Golson and colleagues and focuses upon early to mid-Holocene plant exploitation and early agriculture in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Jose Iriarte is Lecturer in Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter. He is a palaeo-ethnobotanist whose research interests focus on the origins and dispersal of agriculture, human-environment interactions, and the emergence of early Formative (Neolithic) cultures in lowland South America. Luc Vrydaghs completed his Doctor in Sciences at the Ghent University (UG), having already completed a degree in Philosophy of Sciences and one in African Civilisation at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). His research is concerned with the phytolith analysis of archaeological deposits produced by agricultural practices in tropical, arid and temperate areas. Currently, he is a scientific collaborator with the Royal Museum for Central Africa and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, and he is the founding president of ROOTS, a unit specializing in archaeological and palaeoenviromental sciences.