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Achras Zapota
Alphonse Tremeau De Rochebrune
American Tropics
ancient crop domestication
Ancient Peruvians
Andean agriculture
andes
archaeobotany
archaeological plant analysis
Archaeological Sites
Author_Margaret Towle
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Central Andean Region
Central Andes
classic
Classic Epoch
crookneck
Crookneck Squash
early Andean agricultural systems
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Ethnobotany
Formative Epoch
Geographical unity
huaca
Huaca Prieta
Incipient Agriculture
La Rinconada
Lagenaria Siceraria
lima
Lima Bean
Ludovic Savatier
Mummy Bundle
North Highlands
paleoethnobotany
Peru-antiquities
Peruvian Coast
Plant Remains
Pop Corn
pre-Columbian Peru
prehistoric plant use
prieta
Sapindus Saponaria
squashes
Thevetia Peruviana
Vegetal Remains
Product details
- ISBN 9781138535527
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
