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prehistoric Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... Dating from the first appearance of life to when the earliest written historical records begin. Human prehistory dates from the appearance of the first modern humans. In North America prehistory is usually taken to refer any time before ad 1540...
Prehistoric and Traditional Agriculture in Lowland Mesoamerica Reference library
Clarissa Cagnato
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment
... The Oxford handbook of Mesoamerican archaeology (pp. 151–164). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Pohl, M. , & Bloom, P. (1996). Prehistoric Maya farming in the wetlands of northern Belize: More data from Albion Island and beyond. In S. L. Fedick (Ed.), The managed mosaic: Ancient Maya agriculture and resource use (pp. 145–164). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Pohl, M. D. (1985). Prehistoric lowland Maya environment and subsistence economy . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pohl, M. D. , Pope, K. O. , Jones, J. G. , Jacob...
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petroglyph Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...A prehistoric carving or drawing on a natural rock...
palaeo‐ Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...A prefix meaning old or ancient, particularly prehistoric . Spelled paleo in North...
historic Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...1. Related to the known or recorded past, in times of written history. See also prehistoric . 2. Important or famous in...
Iron Age Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...Age The prehistoric period of human culture which began in Europe around 1000 bce (after the Bronze Age ), during which iron was the principal material used for making tools and...
antiquities Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...The collective name for prehistoric and historic artefacts, objects, structures, ruins, sites, and monuments that have some cultural or scientific significance and are considered to be older than 100...
palaeontological area Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...area An area in the USA which has been designated as containing significant (usually fossil ) remains of flora and (non‐human) fauna dating from prehistoric ...
Bronze Age Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...Age The prehistoric period of human culture in Europe from about 2000 bc to about 1000 bc , during which bronze (an alloy of copper and tin) was the main material used for making tools and weapons. It followed the Stone Age and ended with the start of the Iron Age...
Stone Age Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...Age The prehistoric period of human culture in Europe that lasted up to about 2000 bce (up to the dawn of the Bronze Age), during which stone was the main material used for making tools and weapons. Archaeologists usually divide the Stone Age into four periods: the eolithic , the Palaeolithic , the Mesolithic , and the Neolithic...
Early History of Animal Domestication in Southwest Asia Reference library
Benjamin S. Arbuckle
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment
...Braidwood in his famous Iraq-Jarmo Prehistoric Project. Working with a multidisciplinary team including faunal specialist Charles Reed (and also Charlotte Otten and Frederik Barth), Braidwood initiated the Iraqi-Jarmo Prehistoric Project in 1947 . He collected floral and faunal remains from Paleolithic and Neolithic sites in the “natural habitat zone” in the piedmont regions of Iraq, where domestication was thought to have originated ( Braidwood & Howe, 1960 ). During this project and the following “Iranian Prehistoric Project” in the Zagros, faunal data...
Agricultural Innovation and Dispersal in Eastern North America Reference library
Kandace D. Hollenbach and Stephen B. Carmody
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment
...E. (1956). Man as a maker of new plants and new plant communities. In W. L. Thomas (Ed.), Man’s role in changing the face of the earth (pp. 763–777). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Asch, D. L. , & Asch, N. B. (1985). Prehistoric plant cultivation in west-central Illinois. In R. I. Ford (Ed.), Prehistoric food production in North America (pp. 149–203). Anthropological Papers no. 75. Ann Arbor, MI: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Asch, N. B. , Ford, R. I. , & Asch, D. L. (1972). Paleoethnobotany of the Koster site: The...
Geography and Chronology of the Transition to Agriculture Reference library
Peter Bogucki
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment
...nonshattering taken as evidence of domestication. Attempts to find the earliest traces of sorghum domestication in the prehistoric communities of Nubia and eastern Sahara have not been fruitful. For example, sorghum from Nabta Playa in Nubia ca. 7500 bc is morphologically wild ( Wasylikowa & Dahlberg, 1999 ). Instead, the evidence for early sorghum domestication appears focused further the south along the middle Nile. Here, at prehistoric sites like Khashm el Girba, impressions in pottery from sorghum chaff used as temper show both domestic and wild forms...
