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Finding plant domestication in the Indian subcontinent
Current anthropology • 52 • Published In 2011 • Pages: s347-s362
By: Fuller, Dorian Q..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author explores areas of possible plant domestication in India and the likely wild progenitors of cultivars, concentrating on five areas: South India, Odisha, the middle Ganges, the Saurashtra Peninsula, and the Indo-Gangetic divide.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Flora
- Comparative evidence
- Historical reconstruction
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Vegetable production
- Settlement patterns
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- South Indian Chalcolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeobotanist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 9000-2700 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- India
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Dorian Q. Fuller
- Includes bibliographical references (p. s360-s362)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 63000576
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--India