Fuller, D;
Stevens, C;
(2019)
The Making of the Botanical Battle Ground: Domestication and the Origins of the Worlds’ Weed Floras.
In: Liu, X and Lightfoot, E and Fuller, D, (eds.)
Far from the Hearth: Essays in honour of Martin K. Jones.
(pp. 9-22).
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: Cambridge.
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Abstract
The essays in this volume honour a man whose research over the last four decades has exemplified the potential of archaeology, archaeological science and their cognate disciplines to address central questions about food and human nature. The volume comprises 17 thematic papers, all focused on the archaeology of food and arranged into three sections reflecting Martin Jones’ wide-ranging career. The first section, A Botanical Battleground, honours his central role in the development of archaeobotany and biomolecular archaeology. The second, The Stomach and the Soul, discusses the archaeology of food from evolutionary perspectives; while the final section, Between Fertile Crescents, connects to his recent research on food globalization in prehistory. The assembled chapters emphasize not only the food itself, but also the communities who produced and consumed it, as Martin Jones has repeatedly demonstrated that it is the interconnection between social and biological discourses that sheds most light on the human past. Far from the time when the first hearth was ever built, the research of archaeologists connects the meals of the present to past communities and their interconnections to each other and to plants.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | The Making of the Botanical Battle Ground: Domestication and the Origins of the Worlds’ Weed Floras |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/29112... |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Archaeobotany |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10072845 |
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