Prehistory of Agriculture: New Experimental and Ethnographic Approaches

PART I: ETHNOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF PLANT UTILIZATION AND THE TRANSITION FROM GATHERING TO CULTIVATION AND DOMESTICATION

Chapter 1. Harvesting of Wild-grass Seed and Implications for Domestication by Jack R. Harlan
Chapter 2. Use of Plant Foods among Hunter-Gatherers: A Cross-cultural Survey by Lawrence H. Keeley
Chapter 3. Residue Analysis of Ethnographic Plant-working and Other Tools from Northern Australia by Richard Fullagar, Betty Meehan, and Rhys Jones
Chapter 4. Root and Tuber Resources: Experimental Plant Processing and Resulting Microwear on Chipped Stone Tools by April K. Sievert
Chapter 5. Pulse Agronomy: Traditional Systems and Implications for Early Cultivation by Ann Butler

PART II: USING GENETIC AND EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE TO IDENTIFY USE OF WILD PLANTS, THE ORIGINS OF CULTIVATION, AND DOMESTICATION IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF SOUTHWEST ASIA AND SOUTHERN EUROPE

Chapter 6. Domestication of the Neolithic Near Eastern Crop Assemblage by Daniel Zohary
Chapter 7. Agriculture in the Near East in the Seventh Millennium BC by Mordechai E. Kislev
Chapter 8. Cereal-type Pollen in the Near East as Indicators of Wild or Domestic Crops by Sytze Bottema
Chapter 9. Pollen Analysis of Wild and Domestic Wheats Under Experimental Cultivation by Marie-Françoise Diot
Chapter 10. Domestication Rate in Wild Wheats and Barley Under Primitive Cultivation: Preliminary Results and Archaeological Implications of Field Measurements of Selection Coefficient by Gordon C. Hillman and M. Stuart Davies
Chapter 11. Archaeobotanical Significance of Growing Near Eastern Progenitors of Domestic Plants at Jalès, France by George H. Willcox
Chapter 12. Experimental Cultivation, Harvest, and Threshing of Wild Cereals: Their Relevance for Interpreting the Use of Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Artifacts by Patricia C. Anderson
Chapter 13. Harvesting Wild Cereals and Other Plants: Experimental Observations by Romana Unger-Hamilton
Chapter 14. Reflections on Paleobotanical Remains from Hayonim Terrace (Upper Galilee) by Ramon Buxó i Capdevila 
Chapter 15. Franchthi Cave and the Beginnings of Agriculture in Greece and the Aegean by Julie Hansen
Chapter 16. A Cautionary Note on the Use of Morphological Characters for Recognizing Taxa in Wheat (genus Triticum) by Terry E. Miller
Chapter 17. A Carpological Approach to the Neolithization of Southern France by Philippe Marinval
Chapter 18. Problems and Methods for Exploring the Beginnings of Agriculture: The Archaeologist's View by Jacques Cauvin

PART III: EVIDENCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND EFFECTS OF ANCIENT AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES IN THE OLD WORLD

Chapter 19. Cycles of Agriculture Economy as Seen from Experimental and Use-wear Analyses of Tools by Galina F. Korobkova 
Chapter 20. Phytoliths as Indicators of Prehistoric Irrigation Farming by Arlene Miller Rosen
Chapter 21. Evolution of Agricultural Techniques in Eneolithic (Chalcolithic) Bulgaria: Data from Use-wear Analysis by Natalia N. Skakun
Chapter 22. Threshing Sledges and Archaeology by Kathryn Ataman
Chapter 23. Major Units for the Transformation of Grain: The Grain-grinding Households (ei-tl.AR-HAR) of Southern Mesopotamia at the End of the Third Millennium BCE by Jean-Pierre Grégoire
Chapter 24. Some Aspects and Experiments Concerning the Processing of Glume Wheats by Jutta Meurers-Balke and Jens Lüning
Chapter 25. The Interpretation of Sickles: A Cautionary Tale by Annelou van Gijn
Chapter 26. Micromorphological Analysis of Soil Structure Modifications Caused by Different Cultivation Implements by Anne Gebhardt
Chapter 27. Crop Yields of the Prehistoric Cereal Types Emmer and Spelt: The Worst Option by Peter J. Reynolds
Chapter 28. Yields, Sowing, and Fertility: Analytical Significance of Yields by François Sigaut