Roger Blench: Ethnoscience: plants

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This page covers anything I have written on plants in general, as well as links to pages of images of plants, both in markets and within an archaeobotanical context.

 

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Reference

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2021

Fulfulde plant names in Nigeria with Latin/English/French indexes. App for Android phone

Published

2016

Reconstructing African agrarian prehistory by combining different sources of evidence: methodological considerations and examples for west African economic plants. In: News from the Past; Progress in African Archaeobotany. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on African Archaeobotany, Vienna, 2-5th July, 2012. U. Thanheiser ed. 13-26.  Groningen: Barkhuis.

Published

2014

New reconstructions of West African economic plants. In: Language and history in the light of reconstructions. FAB (2010). J. Adelberger & R. Leger eds. 111-149. Rüdiger Köppe: Köln

Published

2014

African Agricultural Tools: Implications of Synchronic Ethnography for Agrarian History. In: Archaeology of African plant use. C.J. Stevens, S. Nixon, M-A. Murray & D.Q. Fuller eds. 243-257. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Published

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. pp. 408-438. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.

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Plant names in African languages

 

Individual languages

 

Language

Dagbani (Gur, Northern Ghana)

Hausa (Afroasiatic, Nigeria, Niger)

Nupe (Benue-Congo, Nigeria)

Fulfulde (West Atlantic, Nigeria)

Ịzọn (Ijoid, Nigeria)

 

 

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