Prehistory of Agriculture: New Experimental and Ethnographic Approaches

• Foreword by Patty Jo Watson       
• Preface by Patricia C. Anderson  

PART I: ETHNOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF PLANT UTILIZATION AND THE TRANSITION FROM GATHERING TO CULTIVATION AND DOMESTICATION

• Ch. 01: Harvesting of Wild-grass Seed and Implications for Domestication by Jack R. Harlan
• Ch. 02: Use of Plant Foods among Hunter-Gatherers: A Cross-cultural Survey by Lawrence H. Keeley
• Ch. 03: Residue Analysis of Ethnographic Plant-working and Other Tools from Northern Australia by Richard Fullagar, Betty Meehan, and Rhys Jones
• Ch. 04: Root and Tuber Resources: Experimental Plant Processing and Resulting Microwear on Chipped Stone Tools by April K. Sievert
• Ch. 05: Pulse Agronomy: Traditional Systems and Implications for Early Cultivation by Ann Butler

PART II: USING GENETIC AND EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE TO IDENTIFY USE OF WILD PLANTS, THE ORIGINS OF CULTIVATION, AND DOMESTICATION IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF SOUTHWEST ASIA AND SOUTHERN EUROPE

• Ch. 06: Domestication of the Neolithic Near Eastern Crop Assemblage by Daniel Zohary
• Ch. 07: Agriculture in the Near East in the Seventh Millennium BC by Mordechai E. Kislev
• Ch. 08: Cereal-type Pollen in the Near East as Indicators of Wild or Domestic Crops by Sytze Bottema
• Ch. 09: Pollen Analysis of Wild and Domestic Wheats Under Experimental Cultivation by Marie-Françoise Diot
• Ch. 10: Domestication Rate in Wild Wheats and Barley Under Primitive Cultivation: Preliminary Results and Archaeological Implications of Field Measurements of Selection Coefficient by Gordon C. Hillman and M. Stuart Davies
• Ch. 11: Archaeobotanical Significance of Growing Near Eastern Progenitors of Domestic Plants at Jalès, France by George H. Willcox
• Ch. 12: Experimental Cultivation, Harvest, and Threshing of Wild Cereals: Their Relevance for Interpreting the Use of Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Artifacts by Patricia C. Anderson
• Ch. 13: Harvesting Wild Cereals and Other Plants: Experimental Observations by Romana Unger-Hamilton
• Ch. 14: Reflections on Paleobotanical Remains from Hayonim Terrace (Upper Galilee) by Ramon Buxó i Capdevila 
• Ch. 15: Franchthi Cave and the Beginnings of Agriculture in Greece and the Aegean by Julie Hansen
• Ch. 16: A Cautionary Note on the Use of Morphological Characters for Recognizing Taxa in Wheat (genus Triticum) by Terry E. Miller
• Ch. 17: A Carpological Approach to the Neolithization of Southern France by Philippe Marinval
• Ch. 18: Problems and Methods for Exploring the Beginnings of Agriculture: The Archaeologist's View by Jacques Cauvin

PART III: EVIDENCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND EFFECTS OF ANCIENT AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES IN THE OLD WORLD

• Ch. 19: Cycles of Agriculture Economy as Seen from Experimental and Use-wear Analyses of Tools by Galina F. Korobkova 
• Ch. 20: Phytoliths as Indicators of Prehistoric Irrigation Farming by Arlene Miller Rosen
• Ch. 21: Evolution of Agricultural Techniques in Eneolithic (Chalcolithic) Bulgaria: Data from Use-wear Analysis by Natalia N. Skakun
• Ch. 22: Threshing Sledges and Archaeology by Kathryn Ataman
• Ch. 23: Major Units for the Transformation of Grain: The Grain-grinding Households (ei-tl.AR-HAR) of Southern Mesopotamia at the End of the Third Millennium BCE by Jean-Pierre Grégoire
• Ch. 24: Some Aspects and Experiments Concerning the Processing of Glume Wheats by Jutta Meurers-Balke and Jens Lüning
• Ch. 25: The Interpretation of Sickles: A Cautionary Tale by Annelou van Gijn
• Ch. 26: Micromorphological Analysis of Soil Structure Modifications Caused by Different Cultivation Implements by Anne Gebhardt
• Ch. 27: Crop Yields of the Prehistoric Cereal Types Emmer and Spelt: The Worst Option by Peter J. Reynolds
• Ch. 28: Yields, Sowing, and Fertility: Analytical Significance of Yields by François Sigaut