Apologies to all - clicked reply on wrong message. kate From: The archaeobotany mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of PARKS, K.E. Sent: 02 September 2009 12:56 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: banana issue HI Matty, Address is 11 Sutton Road, postcode LE2 6FL - it's the white house on the corner off Great Arler Street. See you Friday morning, ;et me know what time, kate From: The archaeobotany mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of luc vrydaghs Sent: 02 September 2009 09:19 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: banana issue Dear List Members, Just to inform you that I get the pleasure to see end of July the outcoming of a volume concerned by the domestication of banana. It cames out as a special issue of the electronic journal 'Ethnobotanical Research and Applications'. It present a state of the art of what is known of the banana domestication as well as the most recent developments in the microfossils technics allowing the track of archaeological evidences for banana. Please find hereafter the table of contents. All the contributions can be downloaded following the link http://www.erajournal.org/ojs/index.php/era/issue/view/25 Hooping this will meet your interest Sincerely yours L. Vrydaghs Table of content: History of Banana Domestication Preface. Emile Frison 164 Why Bananas Matter: An introduction to the history of banana domestication. E. De Langhe, L. Vrydaghs, P. de Maret, X. Perrier and T.P. Denham 165-177 Bananas and People in the Homeland of Genus Musa: Not just pretty fruit. J. Kennedy 179-197 Combining Biological Approaches to Shed Light on the Evolution of Edible Bananas. X. Perrier, F. Bakry, F. Carreel, Ch. Jenny, J.-P. Horry, V. Lebot and I. Hippolyte 199-216 Technical Papers Going Bananas in Papua New Guinea: A preliminary study of starch granule morphotypes in Musaceae fruit. C.J. Lentfer 217-238 Differentiating the Volcaniform Phytoliths of Bananas: Musa acuminata. L. Vrydaghs, T. Ball, H. Volkaert, I. van den Houwe, J. Manwaring and E. De Langhe 239-246 Tracing Domestication and Cultivation of Bananas from Phytoliths: An update from Papua New Guinea. C.J. Lentfer 247-270 Relevance of Banana Seeds in Archaeology. E. De Langhe 271-281 Impressions of Banana Pseudostem in Iron Slag from Eastern Africa. L. Iles 283-291 Regional Multi-disciplinary Papers Banana (Musa spp.) Domestication in the Asia-Pacific Region: Linguistic and archaeobotanical perspectives. M. Donohue and T.P. Denham 293-332 Banana Cultivation in South Asia and East Asia: A review of the evidence from archaeology and linguistics. D. Fuller and M. Madella 333-351 Early Bananas in Africa: The state of the art. K. Neumann and E. Hildebrandt 353-362 Bananas and Plantains in Africa: Re-interpreting the linguistic evidence. R. Blench 363-380