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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Arqueobotánica y teoría arqueológica written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugo Yacobaccio
Publisher : EUDEBA
ISBN 13 : 9502334132
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Pensar la arqueología written by Hugo Yacobaccio and published by EUDEBA. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La arqueología es una ciencia social que ha tenido como objetivo primordial el estudio de las sociedades pasadas a partir de sus testimonios materiales ubicados en tiempo y espacio. A lo largo de su historia ha tendido puentes teóricos y empíricos con las ciencias exactas (como la física y la química), con las ciencias naturales (como la geología y la biología) y con ramas humanísticas (como la historia del arte o la filosofía), con el fin de enriquecer su bagaje teórico y para disponer de mejores herramientas analíticas. Este libro examina la demarcación de la arqueología mediante el estudio histórico del desarrollo disciplinar y de la manera en que se ha conformado su marco conceptual a lo largo de su historia de 190 años. A partir de este análisis, se explica y se sostiene que la arqueología es una ciencia híbrida que combina saberes de distintos campos del conocimiento y los adapta a sus propias necesidades.
Author : Gustavo G. Politis
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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Teoría arqueológica en América del Sur written by Gustavo G. Politis and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramon Buxó
Publisher : Grupo Planeta (GBS)
ISBN 13 : 9788434422254
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Arqueobotánica written by Ramon Buxó and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las plantas han sido un recurso imprescindible para el desarrollo del género humano. A lo largo de la historia éstas han sido utilizadas para la alimentación de las personas y de los rebaños, para la manufactura de todo tipo de bienes, para la construcción de las viviendas, medios de transporte o para la obtención de energía mediante la combustión. El aprovechamiento de estos recursos se ha efectuado de diferentes maneras a lo largo de la historia, pasando de estrategias de explotación basadas en la recolección hasta una intervención más directa en los ciclos productivos de las plantas mediante la agricultura y modalidades de gestión forestal complejas. La naturaleza orgánica de las plantas ha tenido como consecuencia una cierta invisibilidad de éstas en los contextos arqueológicos, agudizada por la utilización de métodos de recuperación de restos poco rigurosos. Esta pretendida invisibilidad ha llevado a minimizar la importancia real que tuvieron las plantas para las sociedades pasadas y por lo tanto a visiones sesgadas de las estrategias económicas de estas sociedades. La creciente implantación de los estudios arqueobotánicos en la Península Ibérica permite entrever un cambio cualitativo en los últimos años. Estos estudios reflejan tanto los usos diversificados como los procesos de trabajo involucrados en su obtención, procesado y consumo.
Author : Jon G. Hather
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134681453
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Tropical Archaeobotany written by Jon G. Hather and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical Archaeobotany fills the need for a substantial reference work on plant remains from the tropics. It covers the examination, identification and interpretation of plant remains in tropical archaeology, whilst also the origins, spread, investigating the origins, spread, distribution and past use of tropical plants for food and other purposes. Recent technological developments in electron microscopy and biochemical and genetic research, as well as increased interest in tropical environments and ecosystems, are now beginning to realise the great potential for archaeobotanical research in the tropics. With the use of case studies from a wide range of areas, this volume details the latest macroscopic, microscopic and chemical techniques for the analysis of plant remains, from seeds, roots and tubers to epidermal fragments, pollen and phytoliths. Each chapter of Tropical Archaeobotany focuses on a different aspect of archaeobotanical research, using detailed examples from a varieety of tropical areas, though with its emphasis on techniques and methodology the book has a relevance beyond the regional scope of each chapter.
Author : Marco Madella
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816598681
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Ancient Plants and People written by Marco Madella and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mangroves and rice, six-row brittle barley and einkorn wheat. Ancient crops for prehistoric people. What do they have in common? All tell us about the lives and cultures of long ago, as humans cultivated or collected these plants for food. Exploring these and other important plants used for millennia by humans, Ancient Plants and People presents a wide-angle view of the current state of archaeobotanical research, methods, and theories. Food has both a public and a private role, and it permeates the life of all people in a society. Food choice, production, and distribution probably represent the most complex indicators of social life, and thus a study of foods consumed by ancient peoples reveals many clues about their lifestyles. But in addition to yielding information about food production, distribution, preparation, and consumption, plant remains recovered from archaeological sites offer precious insights on past landscapes, human adaptation to climate change, and the relationship between human groups and their environment. Revealing important aspects of past human societies, these plant-driven insights widen the spectrum of information available to archaeologists as we seek to understand our history as a biological and cultural species. Often answers raise more questions. As a result, archaeobotanists are constantly pushed to reflect on the methodological and theoretical aspects of their discipline. The contributors discuss timely methodological issues and engage in debates on a wide range of topics from plant utilization by hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists, to uses of ancient DNA. Ancient Plants and People provides a global perspective on archaeobotanical research, particularly on the sophisticated interplay between the use of plants and their social or environmental context.
Author : Alejandro Casas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030993574
Total Pages : 1581 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico written by Alejandro Casas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the worlds mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwide will be interested in this website and its dynamic content. The field (and thus the market) of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology has grown considerably in recent years. Student interest is on the rise, attendance at professional conferences has grown steadily, and the number of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly (the various societies (Society for Economic Botany, International Society of Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, International Society for Ethnobiology, and many regional and national societies in the field currently have thousands of members). Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries. The objective of this new MRW on Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions is to take advantage of the increasing international interest and scholarship in the field of mountain research. We anticipate including the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants for each region. Each contribution will be scientifically rigorous and contribute to the overall field of study.
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ISBN 13 : 9789588852348
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (523 download)
Download or read book De las muchas historias entre las plantas y la gente written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Este libro nace del simposio "De las muchas historias entre las plantas y la gente. Alcances y perspectivas de los estudios arqueobotánicos en América Latina", presentado en el 53 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, en Ciudad de México, enjulio del 2009. En él se reúnen doce presentaciones de diferentes expositores de Latinoamérica, en up trabajo colaborativo que busca abrir un espacio para dar a conocer y discutir los alcances y perspectivas de la disciplina arqueobotánica en el contexto americano. También tuvo el propósito de contrastar las semejanzas diferencias que surgen de la aplicación arqueobotánica en sus más diversas manifestaciones regionales, y contribuir a entender la relación entre las plantas y el ser humano."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Reinder Neef
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431021
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Digital Atlas of Economic Plants in Archaeology written by Reinder Neef and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2012 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third part of the Digital Plant Atlas presents illustrations of subfossil remains of plants with economic value. These plant remains mainly derive from excavations in the Old World (Europe, Western Asia and North Africa) that the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI, Berlin) and the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) have conducted or participated in. Plant material is usually very perishable, but can nevertheless be preserved in archaeological sites if the biological decay of the material is blocked. Many plant remains are discovered during excavations in carbonized form, where despite having been in contact with fire, they have not been completely reduced to ash. Extremely dry climatic conditions, like those in Egypt, can also preserve plant material in a completely dessicated condition. Most of the economically valuable plants illustrated here have been carbonized or desiccated. So this atlas links up very well with the Digital Atlas of Economic Plants.Like the other atlasses, this atlas is a combination of a book and a website.The Book: Just as in part two of the series, this part will not only include illustrations of seeds and fruits, but also of other plant parts. The resulting variety in seed and fruit forms will be illustrated by examples from different excavations. To support their identification and determination, also pictures of recent plants and relevant plant parts have been included.The Website: To supplement the photographs, the website will also include morphometric measurements of the subfossil seeds and fruits. These measurements can be compared with own measurements of the plant taxa in question.Summary: Plant families: 56 Plant species (Taxa): 191 Photographs: 773 photographs of subfossil plant parts, 1137 photographs of recent plants and plant parts Languages: English and 15 indices (scientific plant name, pharmaceutical plant name, English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Arab, Arab in transliteration, Turkish, Chinese, Pinyin (Chinese in transliteration), Hindi, Sanskrit, and Malayalam) Purchase of the book grants access to the protected parts of the websites of the project.
Author : Santeri Vanhanen
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9493194167
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Archaeobotanical studies of past plant cultivation in northern Europe written by Santeri Vanhanen and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant cultivation has a long and successful history that is tightly linked to environmental and climate change, social development and to cultural traditions and diversity. This is true also for the high latitudes of northern Europe, where cultivation started thousands of years before the earliest written records. The long history of cultivation can be studied by archaeobotany, which is the study of ancient seeds, pollen and other plant remains found on archaeological sites. This book presents recent advances in North-European archaeobotany. It focuses on plant cultivation and brings together studies from different countries and research environments, both at universities and within contract archaeology. The studies cover the Nordic countries and adjacent parts of the Baltic countries and Russia, and they span more than 5,000 years of agricultural history, from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. They highlight and discuss many different aspects of early agriculture, from the first introduction of cultivation, to crop choices, expansions and declines, climatic adaptation, and vegetable gardening.
Author : Marco Madella
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 178297430X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Plants, People and Places written by Marco Madella and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phytoliths - rigid microscopic bodies that occur in most plant species - have gone a long way since that day when Darwin became curious about a fine powder deposited on the instruments of the HMS Beagle. This fascinating subject started because of curiosity, and in that respect it was a good start since curiosity is probably the most important drive behind first-rate research. Fortunately curiosity is still present in phytolith research; the articles in this book are full of curiosity and ingenuity. Phytolith research has grown since the times of Darwin and in the last three decades has bloomed. The papers in this collection span most of the application of phytolith analysis (from archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies and botany, to name just some) and the majority of them were presented at the 4th International Meeting on Phytolith Research that was held in Cambridge (UK) in August 2002.
Author : Victoria Diana Horwitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789871280087
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Clásicos de la teoría arqueológica contemporánea written by Victoria Diana Horwitz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew P. Sayre
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319528491
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives from Paleoethnobotanical Data written by Matthew P. Sayre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to the emerging topic of social paleoethnobotany with a series of papers exploring dynamic aspects of past social life, particularly the day-to-day practices and politics of procuring, preparing, and consuming plants. The contributors to this volume illustrate how one can bridge differences between the natural and social sciences through the more socially-focused interpretations of botanical datasets. The chapters in this volume draw on a diversity of plant-derived datasets, macrobotanical, microbotanical, and molecular, which contribute to general paleoethnobotanical practice today. They also carefully consider the contexts in which the plant remains were recovered. These studies illustrate that the richest interpretations come from projects that are able to consider the widest range of data types, particularly as they aim to move beyond simple descriptions of food items and environmental settings. The authors in this volume address several themes including: the collection of wild resources, the domestication of crops and spread of agriculture, the role of plant remains in questions regarding domestic life, ritual, and gender as well as the broader implications of a socially-engaged paleoethnobotany. These studies point a path forward for the constantly evolving field of paleoethnobotany, one that is methodologically rigorous and theoretically engaged. Together, these papers shed light on ways in which the specialized analysis of plant remains can contribute to theory building and advancing archaeological understanding of past lifeways.
Author : Alexandre Chevalier
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782970339
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Plants and People written by Alexandre Chevalier and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 approaches. By means of interdisciplinary examples, this book showcases the relationship between people and plants across wide ranging and diverse spatial and temporal milieus, including crop diversity, the use of wild foodstuffs, social context, status and choices of food plants.
Author : R.T.J. Cappers
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9493194396
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology written by R.T.J. Cappers and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a completely revised version of the first edition, which was published in 2012. Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems and food economies of the past. This book deals with the study of subfossil plant material retrieved from archaeological excavations and cores dated to the Late Glacial and the Holocene. One of the main objectives of this book is to describe the processes that underlie the formation of the archaeobotanical archive and the ultimate composition of the archaeobotanical record - being the data that are sampled and identified from this immense archive.
Author : René T. J. Cappers
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431072
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology (First edition 2012) written by René T. J. Cappers and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. This book deals with the study of subfossil plant material retrieved from archaeological excavations and cores dated to the Late Glacial and Holocene. One of the main objectives of this book is to describe the processes that underlie the formation of the archaeobotanical archive and the ultimate composition of the archaeobotanical records, being the data that are sampled and identified from this immense archive. Our understanding of these processes benefits from a knowledge of plant ecology and traditional agricultural practices and food processing. This handbook summarizes the basic ecological principles that relate to the reconstruction of former vegetations and of agricultural practices in particular. We hope this book will help palaeobotanists, environmental archaeologists, and colleagues from related disciplines optimize inferences based on what we could term old-style archaeobotany. And we hope that our observations will serve as an eye-opener and improve future research, not only as it is practised in our laboratories, but also as it is practised in the field.
Author : Luis-Gethsemaní Pérez-Aguilar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788447230761
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book La arqueología como biología written by Luis-Gethsemaní Pérez-Aguilar and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En 1962 el arqueólogo Lewis R. Binford publicó un artículo titulado Arqueología como Antropología en la revista American Antiquity. Se trata de un trabajo central en lo que vino a denominarse Nueva Arqueología o Arqueología Procesual. Entre otras tantas cuestiones, Binford reclamaba que el objetivo de la disciplina arqueológica es explicitar y explicar la totalidad de las diferencias y semejanzas físicas y socioculturales de la existencia humana. La Arqueología Darwiniana comparte esta asunción, pero va más allá. Comprende la Arqueología no sólo como Antropología -e Historia- sino también como Biología. Sus partidarios defienden que tanto la realidad genética y anatómica como la sociocultural de nuestra especie no se entienden verdaderamente si no es bajo la ley de la evolución, cuyo mecanismo se apoya en los pilares de la transmisión con variación y la retención selectiva diferencial de las unidades evolutivas a varios niveles: genes, memes, individuos, poblaciones, nichos ecológicos, etc. En esta obra se introduce al lector en las características elementales de este enfoque interpretativo en Arqueología. Se exploran con cierta profundidad sus coordenadas teóricas básicas y se exponen diferentes ejemplos que ayudan a asimilar tales principios. Como el mismo autor reconoce, quizás uno de los grandes aportes de este libro a la Arqueología Darwiniana, y que lo diferencia de los trabajos teóricos de otros colegas, es la consideración de insertar también la realidad biológica dentro de un ámbito que la supera y que la integra: el de los sistemas termodinámicos en no equilibrio.
