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The cultural life of early domestic plant use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christine A. Hastorf
Christine A. Hastorf*
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Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, USA
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Abstract

To what extent was gender an important factor in plant domestication? How much of the domestication process can be considered as cultural rather than biological? Christine Hastorf considers these and many associated questions in this topical essay about plants and people.

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agriculturedomesticationSouth Americawomengatherershuntersexchangekinship
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 278 , December 1998 , pp. 773 - 782
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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