book chapter
Abu Hureyra 1: the Epipalaeolithic
Village on the Euphrates: from foraging to farming at Abu Hureyra, byA.M.T. Moore, G.C. Hillman, A.J. Legge ; with contributions by J. Huxtable ... [et al • London • Published In 2000 • Pages: 327-399, 551-554
By: Hillman, Gordon C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Hillman examined the remains of plant foods preserved by charring and uses ethno-ecological modeling (especially comparing Abu Hureyra 1 with the more recent hunter-gathers of California as people inhabiting a similar habitat) to suggest what plants that are missing from the remains might have been eaten by the inhabitants of Abu Hureyra 1. He discusses what plants were used as fuels and the vegetative environment at the end of the Pleistocene. Hillman devoted 'some years to assembling a very extensive reference collection of archaic cereals, as well as fruits and seeds of other species , from my own field research in many areas of Southwest Asia.' (page 339). He also conducted experimental work on how plants might have been harvested, processed, and prepared. Hilllman discusses the Abu Hureyra 1 inhabitant's diet during the Epipaleolithic, the nutritional qualities of the major plant foods, where they would have gathered their food, how it would have been processed, and why and when they would have started agriculture, especially domesticating rye and growing pulses.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Diet
- Collecting
- Nutrition
- Cereal agriculture
- Experimental data
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Epipaleolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- 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; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1973 and plant collection intermittently since 1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 11,500 B.P.-10,000 B.P.
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Abu Hureyra 1, Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. C. Hillman
- For bibliographical references see the Aceramic Neolithic collection(M084) document 14:Moore
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98002893
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period--Syria/Excavations (Archaeology)--Syria/Abu Hureyra, Tall (Syria)/Syria--Antiquities