Companion to Ancient Agriculture

David Hollander is Associate Professor of History, Iowa State University, USA. He is author of Money in the Late Roman Republic and Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy and an editor of The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Timothy Howe is Professor of History and Ancient Studies, St. Olaf College, Minnesota, USA. Professor Howe is a field archaeologist and agricultural historian and is Senior Editor for The Ancient History Bulletin. He is author of Pastoral Politics: Animals, Agriculture and Society in Ancient Greece.

• Acknowledgments xiContributor Biographies xiii1 Introduction 1David Hollander and Timothy HowePart I Plants & Animals 52 Paleoethnobotany and Ancient Agriculture 7Alan Farahani3 Zooarchaeology 37Valasia Isaakidou4 Stable Isotopes in Ancient Agriculture 55Simone Riehl5 Agricultural Plants in the Ancient Mediterranean 83M. Eleanor Irwin6 Animals: The Major Domesticates 103Michael MacKinnonPart II The Neolithic 1197 The Beginnings of Agriculture 121Phillip C. EdwardsPart III The Bronze Age 1498 Agriculture in Bronze Age Mesopotamia 151Michael Jursa9 Egyptian Agriculture in the Bronze Age: Peasants, Landlords‚ and Institutions 173Juan Carlos Moreno García10 Agriculture in the Bronze Age Levant 193Jens Kamlah and Simone Riehl11 Agriculture in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age of Asia Minor 211Andrew S. Fairbairn12 Bronze Age Europe: Revolutions in Agricultural Adaptation 241Lynne A. KvapilPart IV From the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity (300s ce) 26513 Greece and Anatolia, 1200–500 bce 267Clémence Pagnoux and Julien Zurbach14 Agriculture in Greece and Coastal Anatolia, 500–100 bce 289Christophe Chandezon15 Agriculture in Magna Graecia (Iron Age to Hellenistic Period) 317D. Alex Walthall16 Agriculture in the Hellenistic Kingdoms 343J.G. Manning17 Adapting to a Diverse Landscape: Agriculture in Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia 363Turan Takaoğlu18 Agriculture on the Shores of the Black Sea 383Smaranda Andrews19 Agriculture in Iron Age and Archaic Italy 399Laura Motta and Katherine Beydler20 Agriculture in Republican Italy 417Saskia Roselaar21 Agriculture in Imperial Italy 431Annalisa Marzano22 Agriculture in Roman Gaul 447Alain Ferdière23 Agriculture in Roman Iberia 479Benedict Lowe24 Agriculture in Roman North Africa 499Dennis Kehoe25 Agriculture in Roman Egypt 517Brendan Haug26 Agriculture in Iron Age Mesopotamia 539Michael Kozuh27 Iran and Central Asia in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods 565Rachel MairsPart V Comparative Agricultural History 57528 Ancient Agriculture in the Indian Subcontinent: The Archaeobotanical Evidence 577Ravi Korisettar29 Trajectories of Agricultural Development in Prehistoric China: From the Beginning of Crop Cultivation to the Period of Agricultural Intensification (c. 10 000–3000 BP) 611Yijie Zhuang30 Late Antique Farming 633Michael J. DeckerPart VI Conclusion 64931 Common Ground: Understanding Ancient Agriculture from the Perspective of the Modern 651Pamela Riney‐KehrbergIndex 657