Plant life defines the environments to which animals adapt and provides the basis of food
webs. This was equally true for hunter-gatherer economies of ancestral humans, yet through …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

Abstract The Iron Age transition in sub-Saharan Africa represents a time when the
relationship between humans and their environment was fundamentally altered at near …

While Africa has sometimes been peripheral to accounts of the early Indian Ocean world,
studies of food globalisation necessarily place it centre stage. Africa has dispatched and …

Agriculture was introduced into the Central African rainforest from the drier West African
savanna, in concert with a major climatic change that amplified seasonality just after 2500 …

Many societal and environmental changes occurred between the 2nd millennium BC and
the middle of the 2nd millennium AD in western Africa. Key amongst these were changes in …

Abstract This paper describes West African farming practices and knowledge that lead to the
formation of carbon-rich high-fertility African Dark Earths (AfDE)–human-made soils …

West African cuisine has long been known for its distinct ingredients and flavours, often
enhanced by the addition of a large and diverse range of plant foods. A traditional meal …

Although understanding the emergence of agriculture in West Africa has recently benefited
from major advances, the reasons for its fast diffusion south of the Sahara remain to be …

In the last decade, the myth of the pristine tropical forest has been seriously challenged. In
central Africa, there is a growing body of evidence for past human settlements along the …