Research Catalog

Title

Plants and people in ancient Ecuador : the ethnobotany of the Jama River Valley / Deborah M. Pearsall.

Author

Pearsall, Deborah M.

Publication

Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, ©2004.

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Details

Description

xvi, 184 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Case studies in archaeology

Uniform Title

Case studies in archaeology series

Subjects

• Plant remains (Archaeology)
• Human-plant relationships
• Indians of South America > Ethnobotany
• Etnobotanie
• Indianen
• Plantkunde
• Archeologie
• Jamatal
• Präkolumbische Zeit
• Ethnobotanik
• Ecuador > Jama River Valley
• Antiquities
• 15.38 archaeology of the non-Western world
• Jama River Valley (Ecuador) > Antiquities
• Plant remains (Archaeology) > Ecuador > Jama River Valley
• Human-plant relationships > Ecuador > Jama River Valley
• Ethobotany > Ecuador > Jama River Valley
• Indians of South America > Ethnobotany > Ecuador > Jama River Valley

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• PART I: WHAT IS ETHNOBOTANY? Ethnobotany : the study of human-plant interrelationships -- The research process : an overview of the Jama project
• PART II: FIELDWORK. Living and working in the Jama Valley -- Recovering the archaeobotanical data -- Modern flora and agricultural studies : goals and methods
• PART III: PLANTS AND PEOPLE IN THE JAMA RIVER VALLEY. Plants used by the Jama-Coaque people -- Plant-people interrelationships in early Jama-Coaque II -- Producing food in the Jama River Valley -- Staying in balance in the Jama River Valley
• PART IV: A LOOK BEYOND THE JAMA VALLEY. The evolution of tropical forest agriculture -- Ethnobotany in archaeology -- Appendix: Macroremains from the Pechichal site, excluding unknowns.

ISBN

• 0534613217
• 9780534613211

LCCN

2002113853

OCLC

• 52750469
• SCSB-12663732

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library