1st Edition

The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru

By Margaret Towle Copyright 1961
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

183 Pages
by Routledge

All of man's life is in some way associated with the plant world, from his food and shelter to his art, religion and language. The study of this all-pervading relationship between man and the plant world is called ethnobotany. This book provides a systematic reconstruction of the ethnobotany of one of the hearths of American civilization, in the prehistoric cultures of the Peruvian Central... Read more
Introduction; I: The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru; II: Ethnobotanical Evidence in Terms of Cultural Chronology

Biography

Margaret Towle