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The Fifth International Workshop for African Archaeobotany will
be held 2-5 July, 2006
at the Institute of Archaeology,
University College London. For scheduled papers and absracts select days below.
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The Fifth International Workshop for African Archaeobotany will
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Monday, 3 July, 2006 Session: Gathered resources: foragers, wood fuels and the environmental impac
Pearl millet in the rainforest - plant use by early settlers in Southern Cameroon during the first millennium BC
Stefanie Kahlheber JW Goethe University
During excavations in southern Cameroon in winter 2004/2005 an interdisciplinary research team from Tübingen, Frankfurt and Yaoundé recovered rich archaeological assemblages that provide new information on agriculture and land use around 2400-2200 and 1700 BP. Macrobotanical findings indicate that, besides using fruits and seeds of wild or semi-domesticated woody plants, people were cultivating cereals and pulses. This contradicts the general assumption of a tuber cropping and possibly banana-based rainforest agriculture. The presence of Pennisetum glaucum and Vigna subterranea, both originating from more northern regions, supports migration theories hypothesising a human colonisation of the rainforest belt from the West African savanna regions.
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