Meetings are 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month. Our next meeting will be September 18, 2012.
Zeder, Melinda A.
2012 The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40: resource diversity, intensification, and an
alternative to optimal foraging explanations.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology online March 2012.
Lieberman, Victor
2008 Protected rimlands and exposed zones: reconfiguring premodern Eurasia.
Comparative Studies in Society and History
50(3): 692-723.
Outram, Alan K., Alexei Kasparov, Natalie A. Stear, Victor Varfolomeev, Emma Usmanova, and
Richard P. Evershed
2012 Patterns of pastoralism in later Bronze Age Kazakhstan: new evidence from faunal and lipid
residue analyses Journal of Archaeological Science
online Feb. 2012.
Frachetti, Michael D., Robert N. Spengler, Gayle J. Fritz and Alexei N. Mar'yashev
2011 Earliest direct evidence for broomcorn millet and wheat in the central Eurasian steppe region.
Antiquity 84: 993-1010.
Hunt, H.V., M. Vander Linden, X. Liu, G. Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, S. Colledge, and M.K. Jones
2008 Millets across Eurasia: Chronology and context of early records of the genera
Panicum and Setaria from archaeological sites in the Old World. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17
(Supplement 1): 5-18. (This one focuses on millet and has more archaeobotanical detail than
the March 6 reading.)
Jones, Martin, Harriet Hunt, Emma Lightfoot, Diane Lister, Xinyi Liu, and Giedre
Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute
2011 Food Globalization in Prehistory. World Archaeology
43(4): 665-675.
Knudson, Kelly J. , Kristin R. Gardella, Jason Yaeger
2012 Provisioning Inka feasts at Tiwanaku, Bolivia: the geographic origins of camelids in the
Pumapunku complex.
Journal of Archaeological Science 39(2):479-491.
Fiorentino, Girolamo, Valentina Caracuta, Grazia Casiello, Francesco Longobardi and Antonio
Sacco
2012 Studying ancient crop provenance: implications from d13C and d15N values of charred barley
in a Middle Bronze Age silo at Ebla (NW Syria).
Rapid Communications in Mass
Spectrometry 26: 327-335.
Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre
2011 The Agricultural Demographic Transition During and After the Agriculture Inventions.
Current Anthropology 52,
S4: S497-S510.
DeBoer, Warren
1988 Subterranean Storage and the Organization of Surplus: The View from Eastern North
America. Southeastern Archaeology 7(1): 1-20.
Logan, Amanda and A. Catherine d'Andrea
2011 Oil palm, arboriculture, and changing subsistence practices during Kintampo times
(3600-3200 BP, Ghana). doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.12.004
Quaternary International (In press at this time: doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.12.004)
Marshall, Fiona and Lior Weissbrod
2011 Domestication Processes and Morphological Change: Through the Lens of the Donkey and African
Pastoralism. Current Anthropology 52,
S4: S397-S413.
Logan, Amanda and A. Catherine d'Andrea
2011 Oil palm, arboriculture, and changing subsistence practices during Kintampo times
(3600-3200 BP, Ghana). doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.12.004
Quaternary International (In press at this time: doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.12.004)
Larson, Gregor
2011 Genetics and domestication. Important questions and new answers.
Current Anthropology 52, S4.
Vigne, Jean-Denis et al.
2011 The Early Process of Mammal Domestication in the Near East. [
Current Anthropology 52, S4
Smith, Bruce D. 2007 Niche construction and the behavioral context of plant and animal domestication. Evolutionary Anthropology 16: 188-199.
Kuijt, Ian and Anna Marie Prentiss
2009 Niche construction, macroevolution, and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Near East. In
Macroevolution in Human Prehistory, pp. 253-271, eds. A.M. Prentiss et al. Springer Science
+Business Media. DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0682-3_10.
Cordain, Loren, Janette Brand Miller, S Boyd Eaton, Neil Mann, Susanne HA Holt and John D Speth
2000 Plant-animal subsistence ratios and macronutrient energy estimations in worldwide
hunter-gatherer diets. American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition 71: 682-692.
Ströhle, Alexander and Andreas Hahn
2011 Diets of modern hunter-gatherers vary substantially in their carbohydrate content depending
on ecoenvironments: results from an ethnographic analysis.
Nutrition Research
31: 429-435.
Monge, Janet M.
in press If there is food, we will eat: an evolutionary and global
perspective on human diet and nutrition.
Bowles, Samuel
2011 Cultivation of cereals by the first farmers was not more productive than foraging.
PNAS
108(12):4760-4765.
Zarrillo, Sonia, Deborah M. Pearsall, J. Scott Raymond, Mary Ann Tisdale, and Dugane J. Quon
2008 Directly dated starch residues document early formative maize (Zea mays L.) in
tropical Ecuador. PNAS
105(13):5006-5011
Perry, Linda, Ruth Dickau, Sonia Zarrillo, Irene Holst, Deborah M. Pearsall, Dolores R. Piperno,
Mary Jane Berman, Richard G. Cooke, Kurt Rademaker, Anthony J. Ranere, J. Scott Raymond, Daniel
H. Sandweiss, Franz Scaramelli, Kay Tarble, James A. Zeidler
2007 Starch fossils and the domestication and dispersal of chili peppers (Capsicum
spp. L.) in the Americas.
Science 315:986-988.
Henry, Amanda G., Alison S. Brooks, and Dolores R. Piperno
2011? Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal
diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium).PNAS Early Edition
Spooner, Brian
1974 Irrigation and Society. The Iranian Plateau. In Irrigation's Impact on Society,
eds. T.E. Downing and M.Gibson, pp. 43-57. Anthropological Papers of the University of
Arizona 25. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Another possibility, though more detailed, is Brian's article in the Encyclopedia Iranica on irrigation: abyari
Evershed, Richard P.
2008 Organic residue analysis in archaeology: the archaeological biomarker revolution.
Archaeometry 50(6): 895-924. Available online
Miller, Naomi F.
2011 Questions raised by Naissance des divinités / naissance d'agriculture.
[draft submitted to Paléorient
Munro, Natalie and Leore Grosman
2010 Early evidence (ca. 12,000 B.P.) for feasting at a burial cave in Israel.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 107(35): 15362-66.
online
Olszewski, Deborah I.
2010 On the margins: Early Natufian in the Wadi al-Hasa region, Jordan.
Eurasian Prehistory 7:89-101.
Revedin, A., B. Aranguren, R. Becattini, L. Longo, E. Marconi, M.M. Lippi, N. Skakun, A. Sinitsyn,
E. Spiridonova, and J. Svoboda
2010 Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science 107(44): 18815-19.
online
Dolores R. Piperno, Ehud Weiss, Irene Holst and Dani Nadel
2004 Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain
analysis. Nature 430: 670-673.
online
Wilson, Julie, Karen Hardy, Richard Allen, Les Copeland, Richard Wrangham and Matthew Collins
2010 Automated classification of starch granules using supervised pattern recognition of
morphological properties. Journal of Archaeological Science 37(3):594-604.
Shipman, Pat
2010 The Animal Connection and Human Evolution. Current Anthropology 51:519-538.
online
Leach, Edmund
1964 Anthropological Aspects of Language: Animal Categories and Verbal Abuse. In New
Directions in the Study of Language, ed. E. H. Lenneberg, pp. 23-63. MIT Press, Cambridge.
Marciniak, Arkadiusz
2008 Communities, households and animals. Convergent developments in Central Anatolian and
Central European Neolithic. Documenta Praehistorica XXXV: 93-109.
Smith, Bruce D.
2001 Low-Level Food Production. Journal of Archaeological Research 9: 1-43.
Zeder, Melinda A. and Bruce D. Smith
2009 A Conversation on Agricultural Origins Talking Past Each Other in a Crowded Room.
Current Anthropology 50: 681-691.
online
Christian, David: Big History
online