Author: Steensberg, Axel
Title: Hard Grains, Irrigation, Numerals & Script in the Rise of Civilisations
Description: Copenhagen, n.p. 1989. orig.boards. 23x15cm, 147 pp, Series:Commission for Research on the History of Agricultural Implements & Field Structures, Publication No. 6.. Textual maps,photos,drawings. Inscribed by author on half-title, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Counting & Numerals; Development & Cultivation of Hard Grains; The Cradle of Western Civilisation; Hard Grains & the Hieroglyphs of Egypt;Grain & Early Civilisation in the Indus Region; The Cultivation of Rice in Africa & Asia, & Other Hard Grains in the Civilisation of China; Maize, Numerals & Pictographs in the Emerging Civilisations of Mesoamerica; Cultivation of Maize & Storage Techniques in the Rise of Civilisation in Peru; Conclusions.

Keywords: History of Agriculture, Hard Grains, China Archeology, Peru Archaeology, Rice Cultivation, Early Civilisation, Egypt Civilization, Ancient Mesoamerica, Grain