Preface, Patricia C. Anderson and Leonor Peña-Chocarro
Chapter 1: Introduction. Factors and issues in plant choice
Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova and Leonor Peña-Chocarro
Chapter 2: Exploring diversity in the past and in the present
2.1. Exploring Diversity in the Past: an Introduction Lydia
Zapata
2.2. Exploring diversity through archaeobotany Linda
Scott-Cummings
2.3. Exploring diversity through written sources José Luis
Mingote-Calderón, Marie Russel and François Sigaut
2.4. Representing nature: images and social dynamics in ancient
societies Susana González Reyero
2.5. Exploring diversity in the present: ethnobotany studies
Gisella Cruz-García
2.6. Conclusions Lydia Zapata
Chapter 3: Crop diversity through time
3.1. Introduction Elena Marinova
3. 2. Crop diversity and choice in prehistoric southeastern Europe:
cultural and environmental factors shaping the archaeobotanical
record of northern Greece and Bulgaria Elena Marinova and
Soultana-Maria Valamoti
3.3. Crop diversity between Central Europe and the Mediterranean:
aspects of northern Italian agriculture Mauro Rottoli
3.4. Crop diversity in southwestern central Europe since the
Neolithic Stefanie Jacomet
3.5. Crop diversity in the Neolithic of the Iberian Peninsula
Leonor Peña-Chocarro and Lydia Zapata Peña
3.6. The choice of a crop and its underlying reasons: examples from
western Central Europe 500 BCE – CE 900 Corrie Bakels
3.7. Crops and agricultural developments in Western Europe François
Sigaut
3.8. Crop diversity and choice in the Prehistoric American
Southwest Linda Scott Cummings
3.9. Processes of prehistoric crop diversification in the Lake
Titicaca Basin of the South American Andes Maria C. Bruno
3. 10. Conclusions Elena Marinova
Chapter 4: Adding diversity. Between occasional food and
speculative productions: diversity of fruit uses, diversity of
practices regarding fruit tree cultivation
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Acorn use in Native California Rob Cuthrell
4.3. A wild solution to resilience and provision: The case of
Prosopis spp. on the Peruvian north coast David John Goldstein
4.4. Before the Empire: prehistoric fruit gathering and cultivation
in northern Italy Mauro Rottoli
4.5. Citrus (Rutaceae) was present in the western Mediterranean in
Antiquity Bui Thi Mai and Michel Girard
4.6. From secondary to speculative production? The protohistorical
history of viticulture in Southern France Laurent Bouby, Philippe
Marinval and Jean-Frédéric Terral
4.7. Fruit as staple food: the role of fig (Ficus carica L.) during
the pre-Hispanic period of the Canary Islands, Spain (from the
3rd–2nd centuries BCE to the 15th century CE) Jacob Morales and
Jaime Gil
4.8. Beyond the divide between wild and domesticated: Spatiality,
domesticity and practices pertaining to fig (Ficus carica L.) and
olive (Olea europaea L.) agroecosystems among Jbala communities in
northern Morocco Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Younes Hmimsa, Mohammed
Ater, and Bouchaïb Khadari
4.9. Conclusions Laurent Bouby
Chapter 5: Food plants from the wild
5.1 Introduction: Wild food plants in the present and past Gisella
Cruz-García and Füsun Ertuğ
5.2. Gathering in a new environment: the use of wild food plants
during the first colonization of the Canary Islands, Spain (2nd-3rd
century BCE to 15th century CE) Jacob Morales and Jaime Gil
5.3. Wild food plants traditionally used in Spain: regional
analysis Javier Tardío and Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana
5.4. The use of wild food plant resources in the Dogon country,
Mali Camille Selleger
5.5. The silverweed: a food plant on the road from wild to
cultivated? Cozette Griffin-Kremer
5.7. Conclusions Gisella Cruz-García and Füsun Ertuğ
Chapter 6: A versatile world: examples of diversity in plant
use
6.1. Introduction Cozette Griffin-Kremer
6.2. “Humble plants”: uses of furze and nettles in the British
Isles (and beyond) Cozette Griffin-Kremer
6.3. Versatile hulled wheats: farmers’ traditional uses of three
endangered crop species in the western Mediterranean Leonor
Peña-Chocarro and Lydia Zapata
6.4. The use of crop-processing by-products for tempering in
earthen construction techniques Emmanuelle Bonnaire
6.5. Uses of the wild grass Ampelodesmos mauritanica in
northwestern Tunisia today Patricia C. Anderson
6.6. The uses of the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus L.) in the
west Mediterranean region: an example from Sardinia, Italy Maï Bui
Thi, Michel Girard and François de Lanfranchi
6.7. Ancient and modern boat caulking: use of oleoresins in
tropical Asia Maï Bui Thi and Michel Girard
6.8. Conclusions Cozette Griffin-Kremer
Chapter 7: Plants used in ritual offerings and in festive
contexts
7.1. Introduction Ann-Marie Hansson and Andreas G. Heiss
7.2 Hidden Stone – a unique bread offering from an early medieval
cremation grave at Lovö, Sweden Ann-Marie Hansson
7.3 Ceremonial foodstuffs from prehistoric burnt-offering places in
the Alpine region Andreas G. Heiss
7.4 Festive use of plants: a diachronic glimpse of May Day in the
British Isles, France and slightly beyond Cozette
Griffin-Kremer
Common Plant Names, Now and Then – The Botanical Side of View
Cozette Griffin-Kremer and Andreas G. Heiss
7.5 Ceremonial plants among the Hopi in North America Linda Scott
Cummings
7.6 Ceremonial plants in the Andean region Matthew Sayre
7.7. Conclusions Andreas G. Heiss and Ann-Marie Hansson
Chapter 8: Social status, identity and contexts
8.1. Introduction Alexandre Chevalier
8.2. Plants for the ancestors: perpetuation of social status and
justification of power in a Late Formative (400–100 BCE) Andean
group Alexandre Chevalier and Jalh Dulanto
8.3. Plants in the Eastern Iberian Iron Age: from daily work to the
ideological construction of the community Susana González
Reyero
8.4. Social status and plant food diet in Bibracte, Morvan
(Burgundy, France) Frédérique Durand and Julian Wiethold
8.5. Symbol of poverty? Children’s valuation of wild food plants in
Wayanad, India Gisella Cruz-Garcia
8.6. More than simply fallback food? Social context of plant use in
the northern German Neolithic Wiebke Kirleis and Stefanie Klooß
8.7. Legal constraints influencing crop choice in Castille and
environs from the Middle Ages to the 19th century: some examples
José Luis Mingote Calderón
8.8. Late Classic Maya provisioning and distinction in northwestern
Belize David J. Goldstein and Jon B. Hageman
8.9. Conclusions Alexandre Chevalier
Chapter 9: Conclusions – Plants for thoughts Alexandre Chevalier,
Leonor Peña-Chocarro and Elena Marinova
Plant name index
With over 60 contributions spanning 500 pages and more than 40 authors from a dozen countries, the volume has the potential to make an indigestible meal. That it is not can be attributed in no small part to the generally high standard of language editing and, unusually for such a collection of papers, the provision of a detailed index. EARTH 1, along with its two companion volumes, will form an important and useful collection that should appear on every archaeobotanist's bookshelves. Or should that be palaeoethnobotanist's bookshelves? -- Antiquity Antiquity
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