Missing Plant Foods? Where is the Archaeobotanical Evidence for Sorghum and Finger Millet in East Africa?

Young, Ruth; Thompson, Gill

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“…Many reviews of the origins of domesticated plants and animals in Africa have emphasized the early and indigenous development of food production (Andah, 1993;diLernia and Manzi, 1997;Holl, 1993;Smith, 1992;Wendorf, 1998;Wetterstrom, 1993), the impact of cattle-borne disease (GiffordGonzalez, 1998a), patterns of indigenous development and diffusion, the role of arid and unpredictable environment, and the evidence of early domesticated plant foods in Africa (Blench and MacDonald, 2000;Bower, 1995;Harlan, 1992;Marshall, 1994Marshall, , 2000Marshall and Hildebrand, 2002;Young and Thompson, 1999). Here, I direct my attention to the problem of the ethnographic record of hunter-gatherers and food producers, from the perspective of understanding the process of the adoption of food production and from the perspective of understanding hunter-gatherer-food producer interaction.…”

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What Is a Hunter-Gatherer? Variation in the Archaeological Record of Eastern and Southern Africa

Kusimba

2005

J Archaeol Res

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This article reviews the recent history of the archaeology of African huntergatherers, focusing on debates around the origins of modern humans and the destiny of hunter-gatherers with the advent of food production. African archaeologists are developing an increasing appreciation for the diversity of African hunter-gatherer societies. Understandings of hunter-gatherers based primarily on ethnography are being successfully challenged and extended.

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Section: Transitions and Interactionsmentioning

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What Is a Hunter-Gatherer? Variation in the Archaeological Record of Eastern and Southern Africa

Kusimba

2005

J Archaeol Res

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“…Although humid environments and diurnal temperature fluctuations cause rapid plant decomposition in many parts of the African tropics (Young & Thompson 1999), the caves and rockshelters of SW Ethiopia's cool highlands have the potential to preserve botanical remains.…”

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The Holocene Archaeology of Southwest Ethiopia: New Insights from the Kafa Archaeological Project

2010

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Southwest Ethiopia's cool, moist, and steep highlands differ from other African environments, and may have fostered distinct patterns of Holocene resource use and intensification. Prior to 2004, only a few archaeological projects probed eastern and northern margins of this region. The Kafa Archaeological Project (2004)(2005)(2006)) excavated ten caves and rockshelters in different environments in the heart of southwest Ethiopia to obtain a Holocene chronology and compare it with adjacent regions. At Kumali Rockshelter, middle Holocene deposits show use of a microlithic industry to obtain wild game, and excellent macrobotanical preservation promises to reveal changes in plant use from 4,700 14 C bp to the present. Ceramics and domestic animals appear at Kumali and Koka by~2,000 14 C bp, suggesting herding and pottery making appeared late and contacts with neighboring regions were tenuous. Technologically conservative people continued microlith production and sporadic rockshelter use into the eighteenth century CE. RésuméLe haut plateau escarpé au climat frais et humide du Sud-ouest de l'Éthiopie se distingue des autres environnements africains et a favorisé des schémas variés d'utilisation et d'intensification des ressources Holocènes. Avant 2004, seuls quelques projets archéologiques ont exploré les bords nord et est de cette région. Le Kafa Archaeological Project (2004-2006) a fouillé dix grottes et abris sous roche, situés dans des environnements divers au milieu de cette région pour obtenir une chronologie holocène et la comparer aux régions voisines. Dans

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“…Yet, despite sustained levels of interest in Great Lakes Africa Early Iron Age subsistence, relatively little tangible evidence is available. This is due in part to poor preservation conditions for archaeological flora and fauna (Young and Thompson 1999;Marshall 2000).…”

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“…In east and central Africa zooarchaeological remains are often poorly preserved resulting in small assemblage sizes (Young and Thompson 1999;Marshall 2000).…”

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Missing Plant Foods? Where is the Archaeobotanical Evidence for Sorghum and Finger Millet in East Africa?

Cited by 33 publications

References 17 publications

What Is a Hunter-Gatherer? Variation in the Archaeological Record of Eastern and Southern Africa

What Is a Hunter-Gatherer? Variation in the Archaeological Record of Eastern and Southern Africa

The Holocene Archaeology of Southwest Ethiopia: New Insights from the Kafa Archaeological Project

Re-constructing the past in post-genocide Rwanda: an archaeological contribution

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