Prehistory of food: appetites for change

Part I: food and culture, Andrew Sherratt; cash crops before cash - hunting, farming, manufacture and trade in earlier Eurasia, Christine Hastorf; cultural implications of crop introductions in Andean prehistory, Alejandro Haber, Uywana; the house and its indoor landscape - oblique approaches to, and beyond, domestication, Soren Blau; of water and oil - exploitation of natural resources and social change in eastern Arabia, Gustavo Politis; plant exploitation among the Nukak hunter-gathers of Amazonia - between ecology and ideology. Part II: introductions, Helen Leach; food processing technology - its role in inhibiting or promoting change in staple foods, K. Mehra; subsistence changes in India and Pakistan - the Neolithic and Chalcolithic from the point of view of plant use today, Sarah Nelson; Megalithic monuments and the introduction of rice into Korea, Catherine Andrea; dispersal of domesticated plants into northeastern Japan, Elizabeth Reitz; native Americans and animal husbandry in the North American colony of Florida; Part III: food and the landscape, Tim Bayliss-Smith & Jack Golsen; the meaning of ditches - deconstructing the social landscapes of New Guinea, Kuk, phase 4, Chris Godsen & Lesley Head; different histories - Papua New Guinea and Australia compared, Christophe Sand; from the swamp to the terrace - intensification of horticultural practices in New Caledonia, from first settlement to European contact, Robert Kuhlken; warfare and intensive agriculture in Fiji, Carol Palmer; who´s land is it anyway? an historical examination of land tenure and agriculture in northern Jordon, Ken Thomas; getting a life - stability and change in social and subsistence systems on the North-West Frontier (Pakistan) in later prehistory, Yuri Vostretsov; interaction of maritime and agricultural adaptation in Japan sea basin, Kevin MacDonald; invisible pastoralists - sedentists and livestock remains in the later prehistory of arid West Africa, Willem van Zeist; evidence for agricultural change in the Balikh basin, northern Syria. Part IV: plants and people, Edmond de Langhe & P. de Maret; tracking the banan - significance to early agriculture, Randi Haaland; theory and evidence in archaeological interpretation of the transition from gathering to domestication - the puzzle of the late emergence of domesticated sorghum in the Nile Valley, Deborah Pearsall; the impact of maize on subsistence systems in South America - an example from the Jama River Valley, Coastal Equador, Michael Therin, Richard Fullagar & Richard Torrence; starch in sediments - a new approach to the study of subsistence and land use in Papua New Guinea, A. Butler; traditional seed cropping systems in the temperate Old World - models for antiquity, George Wilcox, Agrarian change and the beginnings of agriculture in the Near East - evidence from wild projenitors, experimental cultivation and archaeobotanical data.