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From hunters to farmers: the causes and consequences of food production in Africa

J. Desmond Clark and Steven A. Brandt
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures (page ix)
  • An Introduction to an Introduction (J. DESMOND CLARK AND STEVEN A. BRANDT, page 1)
  • I. General Perspectives: Historical Critique and the Evidence from Botany and Linguistics
    • Introduction (page 5)
    • 1. A History and Critique of Investigations into Early African Agriculture (ANN BROWER STAHL, page 9)
    • 2. Interactions of Food Production and Changing Vegetation in Africa (DANIEL A. LIVINGSTONE, page 22)
    • 3. Historical/Linguistic Evidence for Early African Food Production (C. EHRET, page 26)
  • II. Paleoenvironments and Ecological Adaptations
    • Introduction (page 37)
  • A. NORTH AFRICA
    • 4. Paleoenvironments and Epi-Paleolithic Economies in the Maghreb (ca. 20,000 to 5000 B.P.) (DAVID LUBELL, page 41)
    • 5. Environment and Subsistence in Predynastic Egypt (FEKRI A. HASSAN, page 57)
    • 6. A Reappraisal of the Egyptian Predynastic (T. R. HAYS, page 65)
    • 7. Late Quaternary Prehistoric Environments in the Sahara (M. A. J. WILLIAMS, page 74)
    • 8. Origins of the Neolithic in the Sahara (ANDREW B. SMITH, page 84)
    • 9. The Emergence of Food Production in the Egyptian Sahara (FRED WENDORF AND ROMUALD SCHILD, page 93)
    • 10. Long-Term Nile Flood Variation and Political Discontinuities in Pharaonic Egypt (KARL W. BUTZER, page 102)
    • 11. Prehistoric Cultural Continuity and Economic Change in the Central Sudan in the Early Holocene (J. DESMOND CLARK, page 113)
    • 12. The Transition from Food Collecting to Food Production in Northern Africa (ANN STEMLER, page 127)
    • 13. Effects of Nutritional Change on the Skeletal Biology of Northeast African (Sudanese Nubian) Populations (GEORGE J. ARMELAGOS, DENNIS P. VAN GERVEN, DEBRA L. MARTIN, AND REBECCA HUSS-ASHMORE, page 132)
  • B. WEST AFRICA
    • 14. Early Agricultural Societies in Ghana (MERRICK POSNANSKY, page 147)
    • 15. Archaeological Evidence and Effects of Food-Producing in Nigeria (THURSTAN SHAW, page 152)
    • 16. Early Iron Age Economy in the Inland Niger Delta (Mali) (RODERICK J. MCINTOSH AND SUSAN KEECH MCINTOSH, page 158)
  • C. EASTERN AFRICA
    • 17. New Perspectives on the Origins of Food Production in Ethiopia (STEVEN A. BRANDT, page 173)
    • 18. Human Skeletal Remains from Eastern Africa (G. P. RIGHTMIRE, page 191)
    • 19. Early Evidence for Animal Domestication in Eastern Africa (JOHN W. BARTHELME, page 200)
    • 20. Late Prehistoric Aquatic and Pastoral Adaptations West of Lake Turkana, Kenya (L. H. ROBBINS, page 206)
    • 21. The Introduction of Pastoral Adaptations to the Highlands of East Africa (STANLEY H. AMBROSE, page 212)
    • 22. Implications of a Faunal Assemblage from a Pastoral Neolithic Site in Kenya: Findings and a Perspective on Research (DIANE P. GIFFORD-GONZALEZ, page 240)
    • 23. Settlement Behavior of Pastoral Cultures in East Africa (JOHN R. F. BOWER, page 252)
  • D. SOUTHERN AFRICA
    • 24. Holocene Human Evolution in Southern Africa (ALICE J. HAUSMAN, page 261)
    • 25. Early Food-Production in Central and Southern Africa (DAVID W. PHILLIPSON, page 272)
    • 26. The Prehistory of Stone Age Herders in South Africa (RICHARD G. KLEIN, page 281)
  • III. The Transition from Hunting/Gathering to Food Production: The Evidence from the San
    • Introduction (page 291)
    • 27. Food Production and Culture Change among the !Kung San: Implications for Prehistoric Research (ALISON S. BROOKS, DIANE E. GELBURD, AND JOHN E. YELLEN, page 293)
    • 28. The Effects of Food Production on Mobility in the Central Kalahari (ELIZABETH A. CASHDAN, page 311)
    • 29. Foraging and Food Production among Kalahari Hunter/Gatherers (ROBERT K. HITCHCOCK AND JAMES I. EBERT, page 328)
  • IV. Epilogue: Perspectives and Prospects
    • 30. Perspectives and Prospects for Understanding the Effects of Population on the Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa (NANCY HOWELL, page 351)
  • List of Contributors (page 361)
  • Bibliography (page 363)
  • Index (page 421)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AANTH 88.2 (Jun. 1986) 495 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28198606%292%3A88%3A2%3C495%3AFHTFTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O
IJAHS 18.4 (1985) 723-724 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281985%2918%3A4%3C723%3AFHTFTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
Citable Link
Published: c1984
Publisher: University of California Press
Copyright Holder: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520045743 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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