Plants and people : choices and diversity through time /
edited by Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova and Leonor Peña-Chocarro.
- Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
- Earth Series ; v. 1 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Factors and issues in plant choice / Exploring diversity in the past and in the present / Crop diversity through time / Adding diversity : between occasional food and speculative productions : diversity of fruit uses, diversity of practices regarding fruit tree cultivation / Food plants from the wild / A versatile world : examples of diversity in plant use / Plants used in ritual offerings and in festive contexts / Social status, identity and contexts / Conclusions : "plants for thoughts" / A. Chevalier, E. Marinova, L. Peña-Chocarro -- edited by L. Zapata -- edited by E. Marinova -- edited by L. Bouby, M.-P. Ruas -- edited by G.S. Cruz-García, F. Ertug -- edited by C. Griffin-Kremer -- edited by A.-M. Hansson, A.G. Heiss -- edited by A. Chevalier -- A. Chevalier, L. Peña-Chocarro, E. Marinova.
This first monograph in the EARTH series, The dynamics of non-industrial agriculture: 8,000 years of resilience and innovation, approaches the great variety of agricultural practices in human terms. It focuses on the relationship between plants and people, the complexity of agricultural processes and their organisation within particular communities and societies. Collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists using a broad analytical scale of investigation seeks to establish new common ground for integrating different approache.