New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops

Description:

"New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crop profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the value of the ancient crop record to inform the present"--

subjects: Cereals as food,  Medicinal plants,  Plants, cultivated,  Cultivated Plants,  History,  Edible Grain,  Agricultural Crops,  Nutzpflanzen,  Kultivierung,  Ausgestorbene Pflanzen,  Archäobotanik