課程資訊
課程名稱
 植物考古學
Introduction to Archaeobotany 
開課學期
 111-1 
授課對象
 文學院  人類學系  
授課教師
 蘭克思 
課號
 Anth5152 
課程識別碼
 125 U3440 
班次
  
學分
 3.0 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期三7,8,9(14:20~17:20) 
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 英文授課，使用英文教科書
總人數上限：30人 
  
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課程概述

In the theoretical part the students will learn about the basic concepts of archaeobotany and key methodological approaches. They will be provided knowledge about the relationships of plants and humans through the archaeological record, key (micro and macro) archaeobotanical remains and the main methods employed to reconstruct plant-related subsistence. Another part will present key knowledge on the development of agriculture, main economic plants (crops) and their origin and evolution (domestication). In the practical training students will obtain skills archaeobotanical field work (flotation, sample processing), sample sorting, identification, quantification and data analysis, presentation and interpretation. In a second practical part students will learn how to make use of modern macrobotanical reference material. This involves a visit to the NTU herbarium and/or the Taipei Botanical Garden and an exercise in which students will independently collect seeds from living plants for carbonization experiments. 

課程目標
 By the end of the course, students will have acquired basic knowledge about archaeobotany and how it is applied in archaeological research. The students will be able to organise and conduct archaeobotanical field work as part of archaeological excavations. They will know what macrobotanical assemblages can be used for and obtain basic skills in identifying macrobotanical remains and how to present and interpret archaeobotanical data. 
課程要求
 Participating students should be interested in ancient subsistence economies and early agriculture, should have at least intermediate English skills and should be capable and willing to conduct fine motor lab work and physical field work.

1. Assignments 40%
2. Participation and dedication 30%
3. Exams 30% 
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參考書目
 Barker, G. 2006. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory. Why did Foragers become farmers? Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Bates, J. 2019. Oilseeds, spices, fruits and flavour in the Indus Civilisation. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 24, 879-887.

Fuller, D. 2007. Contrasting patterns in crop domestication and domestication rates: recent archaeobotanical insights from the old world. Annals of Botany 100(5): 903-924.

Fuller, D.Q. 2011. Pathways to Asian civilizations: Tracing the origins and spread of rice and rice cultures. Rice, 4(3), 78-92.

Gremellion, K. (ed) 1997. People, Plants and Landscapes: Studies in Paleoethnobotany. University of Alabama Press.

Hastorf, C.A. 1998. The cultural life of early domestic plant use. Antiquity 72: 773-782.
Hastorf, C.A. and Popper, V.S. 1989: Current Paleoethnobotany: Analytical Methods and Cultural Interpretations of Archaeological Plant Remains. University of Chicago Press.
Jones, M. and Liu, X. 2009 Origins of agriculture in East Asia. Science 324: 730-731.

Leipe, C., Endo, E., Kuramochi, S., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., in press. Crop cultivation of Middle Yayoi culture communities (fourth century BCE–first century CE) in the Kanto region, eastern Japan, inferred from a radiocarbon-dated archaeobotanical record. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00791-1.

Leipe, C., Kuramochi, S., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., 2020. Ritual practices and social organisation at the Middle Yayoi culture settlement site of Maenakanishi, eastern Japan. Archaeol. Anthropol. Sci. 12, 134.

Leipe, C., Long, T., Sergusheva, E.A., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., 2019. Discontinuous spread of millet agriculture in eastern Asia and prehistoric population dynamics. Sci. Adv. 5, eaax6225.Pearsall, D.M. 2000: Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures. Academic Press.

Leipe, C., Long, T., Wagner, M., Goslar, T., Tarasov, P.E., 2020. The spread of rice to Japan: Insights from Bayesian analysis of direct radiocarbon dates and population dynamics in East Asia. Quat. Sci. Rev. 244, 106507.

Pearsall, D.M. and C.A. Hastorf 2011. Reconstructing past life-ways with plants II: human-environment and human-human interactions. In: Ethnobiology, E. N. Anderson, D. M. Pearsall, E. Hunn, and N. Turner (eds), pp.173-187. Wiley Balckwell.

Piperno, D.R. 2006: Phytoliths: A Comprehensive Guide for Archaeologists and Paleoecologists. Altamira Press.

Smith, B.D. 1998: The Emergence of Agriculture. American Library.

Zohary, D., Hopf, M., Weiss, E. 2012. Domestication of Plants in the Old World. The origin and spread of cultivated plants in West Asia, Europe and the Nile Valley. Oxford. 
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