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Archaeological data on the origins of cultivation in the southwestern Sahara and their implications for West Africa
origins of african plant domestication • The Hague • Published In 1976 • Pages: 187-209
By: Munson, Patrick J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study explores the hypothesis that there was an early center of origin for seed-crop agriculture in the marginal climatic areas of the West African Sahelian zone. The author covers what is know about subsistence, environment, settlement patterns, and types of artifacts found in the eight phase archaeological sequence of the Dhar Tichitt region. Why the people of this area adopted food production is considered (going from seed collecting to intensive cropping in just a century), as is the origins of the grains adopted.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Climate
- Flora
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Pastoral activities
- Cereal agriculture
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West African Neolithic
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- 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; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 4000-2400
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dhar Tichitt escarpment, Tagant and Hodh Ech Chargui regions, Mauritania
- NotesAdditional notes
- Patrick J. Munson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-209)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77353651
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- West African Neolithic