Alexandre Chevalier - Plants and People: Choices and Diversity through Time

Other Volumes in this Series

Exploring and Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Technology
(EARTH Volume 2)

Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Preindustrial Society: Choices, Stability and Change
(EARTH Volume 3)

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Plants and people : choices and diversity through time / edited by Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova and Leonor Pea
Chocarro.
1 online resource. -- (Early agricultural remnants and technical heritage (EARTH) : 8,000 years of resilience and innovation
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1-84217-514-9 1. Plant diversity. 2. Ethnobotany. 3. Human-plant relationships. I. Chevalier, Alexandre, 1966- editor of
compilation. II. Marinova, Elena, editor of compilation. III. Pea-Chocarro, Leonor, editor of compilation.
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Cover illustrations
Woman preparing yufka (flat bread), in the village of Kavanoluk (Buldan, Turkey). Image: Alexandre Chevalier
Wheat field in Soria (Spain). Image: Leonor Pea-Chocarro
Farmer winnowing einkorn wheat in Zuheros (Crdoba, Spain). Image: Leonor Pea-Chocarro

We would like to dedicate this volume to

Dr Irmeli Vuorela

a much appreciated member of the Steering Committee of the EARTH Programme, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 74 after holding positions at the University of Helsinki, then the Geological Survey of Finland. Irmeli, whose expertise was in using pollen, charcoal and phytolith analysis to reconstruct human-plant relations, in particular for early Finnish agriculture through to the development of urban settlements, advised the programme with her characteristic humour and wisdom, and was supportive to research comprising this book.

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Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen (FWO) Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium

Grantov agentura esk republiky (GAR) Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic

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Det Frie Forskningsrd Kultur og Kommunikation (FKK) The Danish Council for Independent Research Humanities, Demark

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) National Centre for Scientific Research, France

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Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Netherlands

Norges Forskningsrd Research Council of Norway, Norway

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas (CSIC) Council for Scientific Research, Spain

Vetenskapsrdet (VR) Swedish Research Council, Sweden

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), United Kingdom

Contents

A. Chevalier, E. Marinova, L. Pea-Chocarro

edited by L. Zapata

L. Zapata

L. S. Cummings

J. L. Mingote Caldern, M. Russel, F. Sigaut

S. Gonzalez Reyero

G. S. Cruz-Garca

L. Zapata

edited by E. Marinova

E. Marinova

E. Marinova, S.-M. Valamoti

M. Rottoli

S. Jacomet

L. Pea-Chocarro, L. Zapata

C. Bakels

F. Sigaut

L. S. Cummings

M. C. Bruno

E. Marinova

edited by L. Bouby, M.-P. Ruas

L. Bouby, M.-P. Ruas

R. Cuthrell

D.J. Goldstein

M. Rottoli

Bui Thi Mai

L. Bouby, P. Marinval, J.-F. Terral

J. Morales, J. Gil

Y. Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y. Hmimsa, M. Ater, B. Khadari

L. Bouby

edited by G. S. Cruz-Garca, F. Ertu

G. S. Cruz-Garca, F. Ertu

J. Morales, J. Gil

J. Tardo, M. Pardo-de-Santayana

C. Selleger

C. Griffin-Kremer

L. S. Cummings

G. S. Cruz-Garca, F. Ertu

edited by C. Griffin-Kremer

C. Griffin-Kremer

C. Griffin-Kremer

L. Pea-Chocarro, L. Zapata

E. Bonnaire

P. C. Anderson

Bui Thi Mai, M. Girard, F. de Lanfranchi

Bui Thi Mai, M. Girard

C. Griffin-Kremer

edited by A.-M. Hansson, A. G. Heiss

A.-M. Hansson, A. G. Heiss

A. M. Hansson

A. G. Heiss

C. Griffin-Kremer

C. Griffin-Kremer, A. G. Heiss