apologies all,
I thought I was messaging Dorian directly!
Michèle
> Dear colleagues,
> Just a note to say that the Feitschrift for Gordon Hillman is now out and
> was presented to him this past weekend by the editors,
> Ehud Weiss and Andy Fairbairn. (But of whom were flying out of London the
> next day). I put a couple of photos and a short account of the
> presentation
> on my blog.
> http://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2009/08/gordon-hillman-honoured-with.html
>
> The book is published by Oxbow books
> (http://www.oxbowbooks.com/index.cfm),
> and the contents are below
>
>>From Foragers to Farmers; papers in honour of Gordon C. Hillman,
> edited by Andrew Fairbairn & Ehud Weiss
>
> contents list:
> 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 theancient 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)
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Dorian Q Fuller, FLS FSA
> Reader in Archaeobotany
> UCL Institute of Archaeology
> 31-34 Gordon Square
> London WC1H 0PY
>
> website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/profiles/fuller/index.htm
> blog: http://www.archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/
> Editor: Archaeological & Anthropological Sciences.
> http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9557
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Dorian Q Fuller, FLS FSA
> Reader in Archaeobotany
> UCL Institute of Archaeology
> 31-34 Gordon Square
> London WC1H 0PY
>
> website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/profiles/fuller/index.htm
> blog: http://www.archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/
> Editor: Archaeological & Anthropological Sciences.
> http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9557
>
Dr. Michèle Wollstonecroft
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
UCL Institute of Archaeology
31-34 Gordon Square
London WC1H OPY
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