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Title:The origins and domestication of Yams in Africa
Author:Coursey, D.G.
Book title:West African culture dynamics: archaeological and historical perspectives
Year:1980
Pages:67-90
Language:English
Geographic term:West Africa
Subjects:agricultural history
yams
Abstract:Argues that the domestication of the Yam in Africa may be viewed as an essentially indigenous process based on wild African species. Only in its later stages was it influenced by external factors through cultural interactions - southwestern Asian Neolithic culture, the use of iron tools, and the introduction on non-African genetic material. Map, ref., tab.
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