Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. African Archaeobotany Expanding: An Editorial - Dorian Q. Fuller, Sam Nixon, Chris J. Stevens, and Mary Anne Murray -- Chapter 2. Primate Archaeobotany: The Potential for Revealing Nonhuman Primate Plant Use in the African Archaeological Record - Michael Haslam -- Chapter 3. Dietary Diversity: Our Species-Specific Dietary Adaptation - Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft -- Chapter 4. Seeds at Sibudu: A Glimpse of Middle Stone Age Vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - Christine Sievers -- Chapter 5. Understanding Late and Terminal Pleistocene Vegetation Change in the Western Cape, South Africa: The Wood Charcoal Evidence from Elands Bay Cave - Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington, and Richard Cowling -- Chapter 6. Early Millet Farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali - Katie Manning and Dorian Q. Fuller -- Chapter 7. Holocene Vegetation Change and Land Use at Ounjougou, Mali - Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann -- Chapter 8. Early Agro-Pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: The Botanical Remains from Walaldé - Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Déme -- Chapter 9. Humans and the Mangrove in Southern Nigeria - Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. Adebisi Sowunmi -- Chapter 10. Plant and Land Use in Southern Cameroon 400 B.C.E..-400 C.E. - Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Höhn, and Katharina Neumann -- Chapter 11. Wild Trees in the Subsistence Economy of Early Bantu Speech Communities: A Historical-Linguistic Approach - Koen Bostoen -- Chapter 12. Archaeobotany of Two Middle Kingdom Cult Chambers at Northwest Saqqara, Egypt - Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai, and Sakuji Yoshimura -- Chapter 13. Botanical Insights into the Life of an Ancient Egyptian Village: Excavation Results from Amarna - Chris J. Stevens and Alan J. Clapham.

Chapter 14. Agricultural Innovation and State Collapse in Meroitic Nubia: The Impact of the Savannah Package - Dorian Q. Fuller -- Chapter 15. Islands of Agriculture on Victoria Nyanza - Andrew Reid and Ceri Ashley -- Chapter 16. Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Iron Age Lundu State, Malawi - Ingrid Heijen -- Chapter 17. Prehistoric Plant Use on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, Spain): An Example of the Disappearance of Agriculture in an Isolated Environment - Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodríguez, and Águedo Marrero -- Chapter 18. Patterns in the Archaeobotany of Africa: Developing a Database for North Africa, the Sahara, and the Sahel - Ruth Pelling -- Chapter 19. The Archaeobotany of Farming Communities in South Africa: A Review - Alexander Antonites and Annie Raath Antonites -- Chapter 20. Linguistic Evidence and the Origins of Food Production in Africa: Where Are We Now? - Christopher Ehret -- Chapter 21. African Agricultural Tools: Implications of Synchronic Ethnography for Agrarian History - Roger Blench -- Chapter 22. Leaving a Lasting Impression: Arable Economies and Cereal Impressions in Africa and Europe- Meriel McClatchie and Dorian Q. Fuller -- Chapter 23. The Use of Plants in Iron Production: Insights from Smelting Remains from Buganda - Louise Iles -- Index -- About the Contributors.