...Clara Bosak-Schroeder [email protected] The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean . By Sureshkumar Muthukumaran . Oakland : University of California Press , 2023 . 320 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780520390843...

...John Martin Ancient Trees in the Landscape: Norfolk's Arboreal Heritage . By Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson . Oxford : Oxbow Books , 2011 . 189 pp., £25.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-905119-39-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews valuable...

...Nicholas Dunning Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo: Social and Environmental Change in the Wetlands of Belize . Julie L. Kunen . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 114 / Agricultural History Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo: Social and Environmental Change...

...Terry Rugeley Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya: The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatán Peninsula . Vernon L. Scarborough , Fred Valdez Jr. and Nicholas Dunning . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 382 / Agricultural History...

...Robinson A. Herrera Ancient Agriculture: Roots and Application of Sustainable Farming . Gabriel Alonso de Herrera . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews In discussing those inadvertent or purposeful introductions of food plants into different continents...

...David Hollander Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece . Lin Foxhall . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Spring Englandinthelatethirteentahnd fourteentchenturieswas conditionedby marketpossibilitiews...

... (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1973 ), 4 , 12 Plutarch , The Parallel Lives , chap. 23, 5 7 Thucydides , History of the Peloponnesian War , Book 1 , section 10. 8 Hellenika, Xenophon Nicholas F. Jones , Public Organization in Ancient Greece...

...Lisa J. Lucero Soils, Climate and Society: Archaeological Investigations in Ancient America . Edited by John D. Wingard and Sue Eileen Hayes . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2013 . 272 pp., $70.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-60732-203-0 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Adam Ebert The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt . By Gene Kritsky . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 160 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-119-936138-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural History use of qualitative primary sources along...

...Aaron L. Beek Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion . Gordion Special Studies VIII. By John M. Marston . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology , 2017 . 224 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-9345-3691-9...

... into a nonrenewable landscape. Using one nonrenewable resource (fossil fuels) to exploit another (ancient groundwater), farmers broke the ecological constraints of the region’s semiarid environment and dramatically boosted cropland productivity. The development of North America’s largest natural gas field made...

... by Sea-Ice/Ocean Feedbacks,” Geophysical Research Letters 39 , no. 2 (Jan. 2012 ). 4. S. Abbo et al., “Reconsidering Domestication of Legumes versus Cereals in the Ancient Near East,” Quarterly Review of Biology 84 no. 1 (Mar. 2009 ): 29 – 50 ; D. Zohary and M. Hopf...

... in the nineteenth century, the history of human interaction with surface soils intersected with the much older history of subsurface soils and their ancient interactions with water and marine life. After geology and soil science parted ways, this intersection was not likely to be noticed. Their reunification...

..., paperback, ISBN 08165-2174-3. Archaeological Landscapes ofthe Near East is a timely volume for archaeolo? gists, cultural heritage specialists, and paleoecologists working in this fascinating and archaeologically rich region of the world. The ancient Near East sports impressive and highly diversified...

... were influential in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but who has since been largely forgotten. Nelson anchors his argument on the concept of the “black paths,” the ancient trade routes along which grain was carried to port, creating long-distance trade networks but also spreading...

.... The diversity of instances related to ancient Egyptian bees and their products leads the author to suggest that honey bees possessed special significance in the region s culture. Additional support appears in semiotic uses of bees in tombs, temples, titles, and the bee s representation of the Delta region...

... traders to the Mandan and Hidatsa rendezvous, and helped precipitate the rise of the Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Powhatan confederacies. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023 traditional ecological knowledge maize ancient America Cahokia migration I...

... and elephants not only mixed, but actually coexisted from ancient times to the present in South Asia. Contributors include biologists, anthropologists, and historians, but it is evident that all authors enriched their papers with work borrowed from other disciplines. An introduction by the anthropologist Piers...

..., and her ability to convey a complex argument through refined yet clear and enjoyable prose make it a wonderful book to assign in the undergraduate or graduate classroom. As an ancient environmental historian, I am struck by the parallels between the colonial entanglements Derr illuminates and the history...

... and scholars of modern Egypt, but also to all scholars working on all periods of Egyptian history. Derr s fluid style, and her ability to convey a complex argument through refined yet clear and enjoyable prose make it a wonderful book to assign in the undergraduate or graduate classroom. As an ancient...