Plant domestication is an outstanding example of plant–animal co-evolution and is a far
richer model for studying evolution than is generally appreciated. There have been …

Many of today's major food crops are distributed worldwide. While much of this 'food
globalisation'has resulted from modern trade networks, it has its roots in prehistory. In this …

The spread of farming from western Asia to Europe had profound long-term social and
ecological impacts, but identification of the specific nature of Neolithic land management …

The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000
years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

Archaeology: An Introduction looks behind the popular aspects of archaeology such as the
discovery and excavation of sites, the study of human remains and animal bones …

Legumes were among the first plant species to be domesticated, and accompanied cereals
in expansion of agriculture from the Fertile Crescent into diverse environments across the …

The origins of agriculture in the Near East has been associated with a 'core area', located in
south-eastern Turkey, in which all major crops were brought into domestication within the …

The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern
academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early …

Over the last millennia, the land between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, characterized
by extraordinary habitat diversity, has seen an outstanding cross-cultural development. For …