domingo, 25 de julio de 2010

DROUGHTS, FOOD AND CULTURE

Ecological Change and Food Security in Africa’s Later Prehistory



Libro editado por Fekri A. Hassan (2002)


Contenido:

1. Introduction
F. A. Hassan
2. Palaeoclimate, Food and Culture Change in Africa: An Overview
F. A. Hassan

Section I: Climatic Change

3. Rapid Holocene Climate Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean Climate During the Late Holocene in the Sahara and the Sahel: Evolution and Consequences on Human Settlement
F. A. Hassan, E. J. Rohling, J. Casford, R. Abu-Zied, S. Cooke, D. Mercone, J. Thomson, 1. Croudace, F. J. Jorissen, H. Brinkhuis, J. Kallmeyer and G. Wefer
4. Climate During the Late Holocene in the Sahara and the Sahel: Evolution and Consequences on Human Settlement
R. Vernet
5. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climatic Changes in the Central Sahara:
The Case Study of the Southwestern Fezzan, Libya
M. Cremaschi
6. Late Holocene Climatic Fluctuations and Historical Records of Famine in Ethiopia
M. U. Mohammed and R. Bonnefille
7. Environmental and Human Responses to Climatic Events in West and West Central Africa During the Late Holocene
M. A. Sowunmi

Section II: Plant Cultivation

8. Regional Pathways to Agriculture in Northeast Africa
H. N. Barakat
9. From Hunters and Gatherers to Food Producers: New Archaeological and Archaeobotanical Evidence from the West African Sahel
P. Breunig and K. Neumann
10. Holocene Climatic Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Spread of Food Production from Southwest Asia to Egypt
M. Rossignol-Strick
11. Sustainable Agriculture in a Harsh Environment: An Ethiopian Perspective
A. Butler

Section III: Pastoralism

12. The Evidence for the Earliest Livestock in North Africa: Or Adventures with Large Bovids, Ovicaprids, Dogs and Pigs
A. Gautier
13. Cultural Responses to Climatic Changes in North Africa: Beginning and Spread of Pastoralism in the Sahara
B. E. Barich
14. Dry Climatic Events and Cultural Trajectories: Adjusting Middle Holocene Pastoral Economy of the Libyan Sahara
S. di Lernia
15. Food Security in Western and Central Africa During the Late Holocene: The Role of Domestic Stock Keeping, Hunting and Fishing
W. Van Neer
16. Bovines in Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic Iconography
S. Hendrickx

Conclusion

17. Ecological Changes and Food Security in the Later Prehistory of North Africa: Looking Forward
F. A. Hassan

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