(NOTE: ALL ATTACHMENTS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO http://sites.google.com/site/conservationinmekong02/weekly-literature)
Assignments:
1. You will need to find and read an article on evolution of agriculture in SE Asia. This should basically be a paper about humans before the development of agriculture. This will be briefly presented in class.
[arb] Fuller, Dorian Q. (2007) Contrasting Patterns in Crop Domestication and Domestication rates: Archaeobotanical Insights from the Old World. Annals of Botany. 100: 903-924.
[NC] Headland, Thomas N. (1987) The Wild Yam Question: How Well Could Independent Hunter-Gatherers Live in a Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem? Human Ecology. 15: 463 - 491. [NC]
[tli] Kealhofer, Lisa. 2002. Changing Perceptions of Risk: The Development of Agro-Ecosystems in Southeast Asia. American Anthropologist 104 (1): 178-194. [tli]
[mr] This isn't strictly on agriculture, but it does discuss disease and health problems in an early agricultural society (Khok Phanom Di) in today's Thailand.
Tayles, Nancy. 1996. Anemia, Genetic Diseases, and Malaria in Prehistoric Mainland Southeast Asia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 101:11-27. [mr]
[fig] Welch, D.J., 1998. Archaeology of Northeast Thailand in Relation to the Pre-Khmer and Khmer Historical Records. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 2(3):205-233. [fig]
[nb] Carter R, Mendis KN, 2002. Evolutionary and historical aspects of the burden of malaria. Clin Microbiol Rev 15: 564–594.[Abstract/Free Full Text] [nb]
[ln] Rigg,J. 2005. Poverty and livelihoods after full-time farming: A South-East Asian view. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 46(2):173-184. [ln]
[hl] Hayden, B. 2003. Were luxury foods the first domesticates? Ethnoarchaeological perspectives from Southeast Asia. World Archaeology 34(3):458-469
[ss] Larsen, Clark Spencer, 1995. Biological Changes in Human Populations with Agriculture. Annual Reviews. Vol 24:185-213 [ss]
2. Students will write very brief histories for Tibet, Yunnan, Lao P.D.R., Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, emphasizing activities in the Mekong region of each.
Write histories in the pages below:
3. Students will work in groups to complete the following assignment. You are highly encouraged to include data from previous assignments.
4. [hl] As promised, the paper on the source of the Mekong. (For those who did not attend class, this is not an assignment.)[hl]
Liu, S., P. Lu, D. Liu & P. Jin. 2007. Pinpointing source of Mekong and measuring its length through analysis of satellite imagery and field investigation. Geo-spatial Information Science 10(1):51-56.