Roger Blench: Ethnoscience: crops: general

 

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This page covers all my papers relating to crops, covering classification and lists of vernacular names. I have also given links to datasheets, mainly my own but also those compiled by others, for lists of crops in African languages.

 

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Title

Status

2007

Using linguistics to reconstruct African subsistence systems: comparing crop names to trees and livestock. In: Rethinking agriculture; archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives. T. Denham, J. Iriarte & L. Vrydaghs eds. 408-438. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.

Published

2007

Austronesian impact on West Africa: crop evidence. ms

Unpublished

2003

The movement of cultivated plants between Africa and India in prehistory. In: K. Neumann, A. Butler & S. Kahlhaber (eds.) Food, fuel and fields: progress in African Archaeobotany. 273-292. Köln: Heinrich-Barth-Institut.

Published

1998

The diffusion of New World Cultigens in Nigeria. In: Plantes et paysages d’Afrique. M. Chastenet. ed. 165-210. Paris: Karthala.

Published

1997

A history of agriculture in Northeastern Nigeria. In : L’homme et le milieu végétal dans le Bassin du Lac Tchad. D. Barreteau, R. Dognin and C. von Graffenried eds. 69-112. Paris: ORSTOM.

Published

1996

Evidence for the inception of agriculture in the Nigeria-Cameroun borderland. pp. 83-102. In The Growth of Farming communities in Africa from the Equator southwards. ed. J.E.G. Sutton. Azania special Volume XXIX-XXX. Nairobi: BIEA.

Published

1991

Contact between Ancient Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa: the evidence of cultivated plants. In: Egypt and Africa. ed. W.V. Davies. 54-6. London: British Museum Press.

Published

1989

The Evolution of the Cultigen repertoire of the Nupe. Azania, XXIV:51-63.

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