Minnis P.E. (2014). New lives for ancient and extinct crops. Tucson (Etats-Unis) : University of Arizona Press. 275 p.
Titre : | New lives for ancient and extinct crops |
Auteurs : | P.E. Minnis |
Type de document : | Ouvrage |
Editeur : | Tucson [Etats-Unis] : University of Arizona Press, 2014 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8165-3062-5 |
Format : | 275 p. |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Catégories principales 07 - ENVIRONNEMENT ; 7.4 - Ressources Naturelles : Paysage, Biodiversité, Patrimoine naturelThésaurus IAMM PLANTE ; VARIETE ; VARIETE INDIGENE ; BIODIVERSITE ; ESPECE |
Résumé : |
Over many millennia, farmers across the world have domesticated literally thousands of species and developed tens of thousands of varieties of these plants. Despite the astonishing agricultural diversity that existed long ago, the world's current food base has narrowed to a dangerous level. By studying the long and dynamic history of farming in the ancient past, archaeology can play a part in helping ensure the stability of the human food supply by identifying once-important crops and showing where and how such crops were grown in the past. Thanks to this work, extinct crops might even be redomesticated from their wild progenitors.
New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and had medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marshelder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the global value of the ancient crop record to inform the present. From eastern and western North America, Mesoamerica, South America, western Asia, and south-central Asia, the contributors provide examples of the unexpected wealth of information available in the archaeological record about ancient and extinct crops. |
Note de contenu : |
Maygrass (Phalaris caroliniana Walt.): its role and significance in native eastern North American agriculture
Goosefoot (Chenopodium) Sumpweed or marshelder (Iva annua) / Agave (Agave spp.): a crop lost and found in the US-Mexico borderlands Little barley grass (Hordeum pusillum Nutt.): a prehispanic new world domesticate lost to history Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) Arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea) and leren (Calathea latifolia); marantaceae Panicum sumatrense: the forgotten millet Bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia): ancient medicinal crop and farmers' favorite for feeding livestock |
Cote : | I60-MIN-2014 |
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