SECRET FESTSCHRIFT FOR GORDON HILLMAN

 
From Foragers to Farmers; papers in honour of Gordon C. Hillman, 
edited by Andrew Fairbairn & Ehud Weiss
 
Attached is a pre-publication offer for a secret festschrift being 
published by Oxbow. Do not mention this to Gordon! You can add your 
name to the Tabula Gratulatoria containing names of those wishing to 
honour Gordon which will be printed in the front of the book, and 
purchase the book containing 28 chapters for just £39.95 (normally 
£55.00). The contents are listed below.
 
Please pass this on to friends and colleagues who may wish to sign the 
Tabula Gratulatoria honouring Gordon and buy the book at this pre-
publication price. Please  email out via any relevant email lists 
providing of course it does not include, or you have temporarily deleted, 
Gordon!.
 
 
Mike
 
PS - Do you know of the new Prehistoric Society Research Papers? A 
forthcoming volume "Land and People; papers in memory of John G. 
Evans" eds M.J Allen, N. Sharples & T. O'Connor, may be of interest to 
you. See the pre-publication and Tabula Commemorativa offer on the 
Prehistoric Society website under "Research papers 
(www.prehistoricsociety.org)
 
CONTENTS - FROM FORAGERS TO FARMERS
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS  1. Gordon Hillman and the development of 
archaeobotany at and beyond the London Institute of Archaeology 
(David R. Harris) 2. Gordon Hillman, Abu Hureyra and the development 
of agriculture (Andrew M. T. Moore) 3. Gordon Hillman’s pioneering 
influence on Near Eastern archaeobotany, a personal appraisal (George 
Willcox) 

THEORY AND METHOD  4. On the potential for spring sowing in the 
ancient Near East (Mark A. Blumler and Giles J. Waines)  5. 
Domestication and the dialectic: Archaeobotany and the future of the 
Neolithic Revolution in the Near East (Joy McCorriston)  6. Agriculture 
and the development of complex societies: An archaeobotanical agenda 
(Dorian Q Fuller and Chris J Stevens)  7. Dormancy and the plough: 
Weed seed biology as an indicator of agrarian change in the first 
millennium AD (Martin Jones) 

ETHNOBOTANY AND EXPERIMENT  8. Wild plant foods: Routine dietary 
supplements or famine foods? (Füsun Ertug)   9. Acorns as food in 
southeast Turkey: Implications for prehistoric subsistence in Southwest 
Asia (Sarah Mason and Mark Nesbitt)  10. Water chestnuts (Trapa 
natans L.) as controversial plants: Botanical, ethno-historical and 
archaeological evidence (Ksenija Borojevic)  11. Evidence of 
domestication in the Old World grain legumes (Ann Butler) 12. Einkorn 
(Triticum monococcum L.) cultivation in mountain communities of the 
western Rif (Morocco): An ethnoarchaeological project (Leonor Pena-
Chocarro, Lydia Zapata et al.)  13. The importance and antiquity of 
frikkeh: A simple snack or a socio-economic indicator of decline and 
prosperity in the ancient Near East? (Amr Al-Azm)  14. The doum palm 
(Hyphaene thebaica) in South Arabia: Past and present (Dominique de 
Moulins and Carl Phillips)  15. Harvesting experiments on the clonal 
helophyte sea club-rush (Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla): An 
approach to identifying variables that may have influenced hunter-
gatherer resource selection in Late Pleistocene Southwest Asia.(Michele 
Wollstonecroft)  16. Aspects of the archaeology of the Irish keyhole-
shaped corn drying kiln with particular reference to archaeobotanical 
studies and archaeological experiments (Mick Monk and Ellen Kelleher)  

ARCHAEOBOTANY  17. Glimpsing into a hut: Economy and Society of 
Ohalo II's inhabitants (Ehud Weiss)  18. Reconstruction of local 
woodland vegetation and use of firewood at two Epipalaeolithic cave 
sites in southwest Anatolia (Turkey) (Daniele Martinoli)  19. Vegetation 
and subsistence of the Epipalaeolithic in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: 
Charcoal and macro-remains from Masara sites (Ursula Thanheiser)  20. 
The uses of Eryngium yuccifolium by Native American people (Maria 
Scott Standifer et al.)  21. Bananas: Towards a revised prehistory (Jean 
Kennedy)  22. The advance of agriculture in the coastal zone of East 
Asia (Elena Sergusheva and Yury Vostretsov)  23. Knossos, Crete: 
Invaders, “sea goers”, or previously “invisible”, the Neolithic plant 
economy appears fully-fledged in 9,000 B.P. (Anaya Sarpaki)  24. 
Reconstructing the ear morphology of ancient small-grain wheat 
(Triticum turgidum ssp. parvicoccum) (Mordachi Kislev)  25. The Khalub-
tree in Mesopotamia: Myth or Reality? (Naomi Miller and Alhena 
Gadotti)  26. The archaeobotany of cotton (Gossypium sp. L) in Egypt 
and Nubia with special reference to Qasr Ibrim, Egyptian Nubia (Alan 
Clapham and Peter Rowly -Conwy)  27. Questions of continuity: Fodder 
and fuel use in Bronze Age Egypt (Mary Anne Murray)  28. Food and 
culture: the plant foods from Roman and Islamic Quseir, Egypt (Marijke 
van der Veen, Jacob Morales, Alison Cox)