Acknowledgments xi Contributor Biographies xiii 1 Introduction 1 David Hollander and Timothy Howe Part I Plants & Animals 5 2 Paleoethnobotany and Ancient Agriculture 7 Alan Farahani 3 Zooarchaeology 37 Valasia Isaakidou 4 Stable Isotopes in Ancient Agriculture 55 Simone Riehl 5 Agricultural Plants in the Ancient Mediterranean 83 M. Eleanor Irwin 6 Animals: The Major Domesticates 103 Michael MacKinnon Part II The Neolithic 119 7 The Beginnings of Agriculture 121 Phillip C. Edwards Part III The Bronze Age 149 8 Agriculture in Bronze Age Mesopotamia 151 Michael Jursa 9 Egyptian Agriculture in the Bronze Age: Peasants, Landlords, and Institutions 173 Juan Carlos Moreno García 10 Agriculture in the Bronze Age Levant 193 Jens Kamlah and Simone Riehl 11 Agriculture in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age of Asia Minor 211 Andrew S. Fairbairn 12 Bronze Age Europe: Revolutions in Agricultural Adaptation 241 Lynne A. Kvapil Part IV From the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity (300s ce) 265 13 Greece and Anatolia, 1200-500 bce 267 Clémence Pagnoux and Julien Zurbach 14 Agriculture in Greece and Coastal Anatolia, 500-100 bce 289 Christophe Chandezon 15 Agriculture in Magna Graecia (Iron Age to Hellenistic Period) 317 D. Alex Walthall 16 Agriculture in the Hellenistic Kingdoms 343 J.G. Manning 17 Adapting to a Diverse Landscape: Agriculture in Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia 363 Turan Takaoglu 18 Agriculture on the Shores of the Black Sea 383 Smaranda Andrews 19 Agriculture in Iron Age and Archaic Italy 399 Laura Motta and Katherine Beydler 20 Agriculture in Republican Italy 417 Saskia Roselaar 21 Agriculture in Imperial Italy 431 Annalisa Marzano 22 Agriculture in Roman Gaul 447 Alain Ferdière 23 Agriculture in Roman Iberia 479 Benedict Lowe 24 Agriculture in Roman North Africa 499 Dennis Kehoe 25 Agriculture in Roman Egypt 517 Brendan Haug 26 Agriculture in Iron Age Mesopotamia 539 Michael Kozuh 27 Iran and Central Asia in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods 565 Rachel Mairs Part V Comparative Agricultural History 575 28 Ancient Agriculture in the Indian Subcontinent: The Archaeobotanical Evidence 577 Ravi Korisettar 29 Trajectories of Agricultural Development in Prehistoric China: From the Beginning of Crop Cultivation to the Period of Agricultural Intensification (c.
10 000-3000 BP) 611 Yijie Zhuang 30 Late Antique Farming 633 Michael J. Decker Part VI Conclusion 649 31 Common Ground: Understanding Ancient Agriculture from the Perspective of the Modern 651 Pamela RineyKehrberg Index 657.