Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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
Author: Margaret TowlePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351303945
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Ethnobotany of Pre-columbian Peru
Author: Margaret A. TowleThe Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru
Author: M. A. TowneCorn 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.
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 Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru. Foreword by Gordon R. Willey
Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Foraging and Farming
Author: David R. HarrisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317598296
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This volume develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. It modifies the conceptual dichotomy between "hunter-gatherers" and "farmers", viewing human exploitation of plant resources as a global evolutionary process which incorporated the beginnings of cultivation and crop domestication. The studies throughout the book come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. This work is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists and geographers. Originally published 1989.
Cultural Negotiations
Author: David L. BrowmanPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496210441
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This meticulously researched reference work documents the role of women who contributed to the development of Americanist archaeology from 1865 to 1940. Between the Civil War and World War II, many women went into anthropology and archaeology, fields that, at the beginning of this period, welcomed and made room for amateurs of both genders. But over time, the increasingly professional structure of these fields diminished or even obscured the contributions of women due to their lack of access to prestigious academic employment and publishing opportunities. As a result, a woman archaeologist during this period often published her research under her husband's name or as a junior author with her husband. In Cultural Negotiations archaeologist David L. Browman has scoured the archaeological literature and archival records of several institutions to bring the stories of more than two hundred women in Americanist archaeology to light through detailed biographies that discuss their contributions and publications. This work highlights how the social and cultural construction of archaeology as a field marginalized women and will serve as an invaluable reference to those researchers who continue to uncover the history of women in the sciences.