The evidence from ancient crops over the past decade challenges some of our most basic
assumptions about the process of domestication. The emergence of crops has been viewed …

Plant life defines the environments to which animals adapt and provides the basis of food
webs. This was equally true for hunter-gatherer economies of ancestral humans, yet through …

Deep knowledge of crop biodiversity is essential to improving global food security. Despite
bread wheat serving as a keystone crop worldwide, the population history of bread wheat …

The transition from a human diet based exclusively on wild plants and animals to one
involving dependence on domesticated plants and animals beginning 10,000 to 11,000 y …

This paper explores the explanations for, and consequences of, the early appearance of
food production outside the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia, where it originated in the …

We analyze the processing of cereals and its role at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe,
southeastern Anatolia (10th/9th millennium BC), a site that has aroused much debate in …

Domestication is the process by which plants or animals evolved to fit a human-managed
environment, and it is marked by innovations in plant morphology and anatomy that are in …

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 …

The multifaceted behavioral and ecological flexibility of pigs and wild boar (Sus scrofa)
makes study of their domestication both complex and of broad anthropological significance …

Zohary and Hopf coined the term 'founder crops' to refer to a specific group of eight plants,
namely three cereals (einkorn, emmer and barley), four legumes (lentil, pea, bitter vetch and …