Foraging and farming : the evolution of plant exploitation / edited by David R. Harris, Gordon C. Hillman.

Results of a symposium held at the World Archaeological Congress, held in Southampton, England, in Sept. 1986.

Includes bibliographies and index.

An evolutionary continuum of people-plant interaction / David R. Harris -- Darwinism and its role in the explanation of domestication / David Rindos -- Domestication and domiculture in northern Australia : a social perspective / A.K. Chase -- The domestication of environment / D.E. Yen -- Wild-grass seed harvesting in the Sahara and sub-Sahara of Africa / Jack R. Harlan -- Australian Aboriginal seed grinding and its archaeological record : a case study from the Western Desert / Scott Cane -- Plant foods of Gidjingali : ethnographic and archaeological perspectives from northern Australia on tuber and seed exploitation / Rhys Jones & Betty Mehan -- Plant usage and management in southwest Australian Aboriginal societies / Sylvia J. Hallam -- Ethnoecological observations on wild and cultivated rice and yams in northeastern Thailand / Joyce C. White -- An example of intensive plant husbandry : the Kumeyaay of southern California / Florence C. Shipek --^

Plant-food processing : implications for dietary quality / Ann B. Stahl -- Plant exploitation at Grotta dell'Uzzo, Sicily : new evidence for the transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic subsistence in southern Europe / Lorenzo Costantini -- Late Paleolithic plant foods from Wadi Kubbaniya in Upper Egypt : dietary diversity, infant weaning, and seasonality in a riverine environment / Gordon C. Hillman -- Plant-food economy during the Epipalaeolithic period at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria : dietary diversity, seasonality, and modes of exploitation / Gordon C. Hillman, Susan M. Colledge & David R. Harris -- Mesolithic exploitation of wild plants in Sri Lanka : archaeobotanical study at the cave site of Beli-Lena / M.D. Kajale -- New evidence on plant exploitation and environment during the Hoabinhian (late Stone Age) from Ban Kao Caves, Thailand / Kosum Pyramarn -- The taming of the rain forests : a model for late Pleistocene forest exploitation in New Guinea / Les Groube --^

Seed gathering in inland Australia : current evidence from seed-grinders on the antiquity of the ethnohistorical pattern of exploitation / M.A. Smith -- Adaptation of prehistoric hunter-gatherers to the high Andes : the changing role of plant resources / Deborah M. Pearsall -- The tropical African cereals / Jack R. Harlan -- Factors responsible for the ennoblement of African yams : inferences from experiments in yam domestication / V.E. Chikwendu & C.E.A. Okezie -- Domestication of the Southwest Asian Neolithic crop assemblage of cereals, pulses, and flax : the evidence from the living plants / Daniel Zohary -- Origin and domestication of the Southwest Asian grain legumes / Gideon Ladizinsky -- Cryptic anatomical characters as evidence of early cultivation in the grain legumes (pulses) / Ann Butler -- Domestication and the spread of the cultivated rices / T.T. Chang --^

Crops of the Pacific : new evidence from the chemical analysis of organic residues in pottery / H. Edward Hill & John Evans -- Cytological and genetic evidence on the domestication and diffusion of crops within the Americas / Barbara Pickersgill -- Maize : domestication, racial evolution, and spread / Garrison Wilkes -- Andean maize : its origins and domestication / Duccio Bonavia & Alexander Grobman -- Domestication of Cucurbitacae : Cucurbita and Lagenaria / Charles B. Heiser Jr. -- The domestication of roots and tubers in the American tropics / J.G. Hawkes -- A chemical-ecological model of root and tuber domestication in the Andes / Timothy Johns -- From foraging to food production in northeastern Venezuela and the Caribbean / Mario Sanoja -- Non-affluent foragers : resource availability, seasonal shortages, and the emergence of agriculture in Panamanian tropical forests / Dolores R. Piperno -- Early plant cultivation in the Eastern Woodlands of North America / Patty Jo Watson --^

Agricultural intensification and ridged field cultivation in the prehistoric upper Midwest of North America / James. P. Gallagher -- The spread of agriculture in western Europe : Indo-European and (non- )pre-Indo-European linguistic evidence / T.L. Markey -- Agricultural evolution north of the Black Sea from the Neolithic to the Iron Age / Zoya V. Yanushevich -- The transition from foraging to farming in Southwest Asia : problems and future directions / A.M.T. Moore -- Early farming communities in the Jordan Valley / Ofer Bar-Yosef & Mordechai E. Kislev -- Prehistoric agriculture in China / An Zhimin -- Coastal adaptation, sedentism, and domestication : a model for socio-economic intensification in prehistoric Southeast Asia / Charles Higham & Bernard Maloney -- The transition from stone to steel in the prehistoric swidden agricultural technology of the Kantu' of Kalimantan, Indonesia / Michael R. Dove -- The origins and development of New Guinea agriculture / Jack Golson --^

Gardens in the south : diversity and change in prehistoric Maaori agriculture / Susan Bulmer.

Papers resulting from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England, September 1986 ; includes papers by A. K. Chase, D. E. Yen, S. Cane, R. Jones and B. Meehan, S. J. Hallam, M. A. Smith, which have been annotated separately.