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

FOOD AND EVOLUTION

Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits

Libro editado por Marvin Harris y Eric B. Ross (1987)

Contenido:

Introduction

Part I. Theoretical Overview

1. An Overview of Trends in Dietary Variation from Hunter-Gatherer to Modern Capitalist Societies
ERIC B. ROSS
2. Foodways: Historical Overview and Theoretical Prolegomenon
MARVIN HARRIS

Part II. Bioevolutionary Antecedents and Constraints

3. Primate Diets and Gut Morphology: Implications for Hominid Evolution
KATHARINE MILTON
4. Omnivorous Primate Diets and Human Overconsumption of Meat
WILLIAM J. HAMILTON III
5. Fava Bean Consumption: A Case for the CoEvolution of Genes and Culture
SOLOMON H. KATZ

Part III. Nutritional and Biopsychological Constraints

6. Problems and Pitfalls in the Assessment of Human Nutritional Status
P. L. PELLETT
7. Psychobiological Perspectives on Food Preferences and Avoidances
PAUL ROZIN
8. The Preference for Animal Protein and f'at: A Cross-Cultural Survey
H. LEON ABRAMS, JR.
9. Biocultural Consequences of Animals Versus Plants as Sources of Fats, Proteins, and Other Nutrients
LESLIE SUE LIEBERMAN

Part IV. Pre-State Foodways: Past and Present

10. The Significance of Long-Term Changes in Human Diet and Food Economy
MARK N. COHEN
11. Life in the "Garden of Eden": Causes and Consequences of the Adoption of Marine Diets by
Human Societies
DAVID R. YESNER
12. The Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Diets: Stalking an Optimal Foraging Model
BRUCE WINTERHALDER
13. How Much Food Do Foragers Need?
KRISTEN HAWKES
14. Aboriginal Subsistence in a Tropical Rain Forest Environment: Food Procurement, Cannibalism, and Population Regulation in Northeastern Australia
DAVID R. HARRIS
15. Ecological and Structural Influences on the Proportions of Wild Foods in the Diets of Two
Machiguenga Communities
ALLEN JOHNSON and MICHAEL BAKSH
16. Limiting Factors in Amazonian Ecology
KENNETH R. GOOD

Part V. The Political Economy and the Political Ecology of Contemporary Foodways

17. Loaves and Fishes in Bangladesh
SHIRLEY LINDENBAUM
18. Animal Protein Consumption and the Sacred Cow Complex in India
K. N. NAIR
19. The Effects of Colonialism and Neocolonialism on the Gastronomic Patterns of the Third 'Vorld
RICHARD W. FRANKE
20. Stability and Change in Highland Andean Dietary Patterns
BENJAMIN S. ORLOVE
21. Social Class and Diet in Contemporary Mexico
GRETEL H. PELTO
22. From Costa Rican Pasture to North American Hamburger
MARC EDELMAN

Part VI. Discussion and Conclusions

23. The Evolution of Human Subsistence
ANNA ROOSEVELT
24. Biocultural Aspects of Food Choice
GEORGE ARMELAGOS

Neanderthals and Modern Humans

An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective




Libro de Clive Finlayson (2004)


1 Human evolution in the Pleistocene
2 Biogeographical patterns
3 Human range expansions, contractions and extinctions
4 The Modern Human–Neanderthal problem
5 Comparative behaviour and ecology of Neanderthals and Modern Humans
6 The conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last glacial cycle
7 The Modern Human colonisation and the Neanderthal extinction
8 The survival of the weakest