Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru
Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru
Author: Margaret TowlePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351303945
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
All of man's life is in some way associated with the plant world, from his food and shelter to his art, religion and language. The study of this all-pervading relationship between man and the plant world is called ethnobotany. This book provides a systematic reconstruction of the ethnobotany of one of the hearths of American civilization, in the prehistoric cultures of the Peruvian Central Andes.As we learn more about the rise and spread of New World agriculture, it becomes evident that Peru was one of the sources of its development. Plants were cultivated here at least 2,000 years before the beginning of the Christian era. Village life was intimately bound up with this cultivation, later civilizations rested upon it as a foundation, and from Peru agriculture was diffused to other parts of the Americas.Towle bases her work on the evidence of plant remains found in archeological sites, surveys of botanical and ethnological literature, and field studies of modern plant utilization. After a methodological and historical introduction, she proceeds to a systematic listing of plant species, each fully described. She then presents the ethnobotanical data for each of the cultural-geographic divisions of the area, giving a chronological picture of the use of wild and cultivated plants against a background of the cultures of which they were part. A summary of the evolutionary trends in the region as a whole is followed by a full bibliography and index. The book contains fifteen pages of plates.Margaret A. Towle (1902-1985) received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1958 and was research fellow in ethnobotany in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.
The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru
Author: M. A. TowneThe Ethnobotany of Pre-columbian Peru
Author: Margaret A. TowleThe Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru. Foreword by Gordon R. Willey
Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru as Evidenced by Archaeological Materials
Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru. Foreword by Gordon R. Willey. Subscribers Ed
Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN: 9780598228000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The Inca World
Author: Laura Laurencich MinelliPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132211
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archeological research and Spanish colonial documentation, provides important insights into many questions and contradictions regarding the Inca Empire. 337 illustrations, 106 in color. 12 maps.
Corn in Clay
Author: Mary W. EubanksPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813016696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This work looks at contact between ancient American cultures. It integrates evidence from replicas of maize on ancient pottery vessels with other biological and archaeological evidence to establish a degree of contact between Mesoamerica and the Andean region in precolumbian times.
Author: Margaret A. Towle