Background Archaeobotany, the study of plant remains from sites of ancient human activity,
provides data for studying the initial evolution of domesticated plants. An important …

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 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 …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

Neolithic Farming in Central Europe examines the nature of the earliest crop cultivation, a
subject that illuminates the lives of Neolithic farming families and the day-to-day reality of the …

The scale and nature of early cultivation are topics that have received relatively limited
attention in research on the origins of agriculture. In Southwest Asia, one the earliest centers …

This paper debates claims that plant domestication occurred rapidly in a single restricted
sub-section of the Near Eastern Fertile Crescent. Instead we argue for numerous parallel …

The accumulation of recent data from archaeobotany, archaeozoology and Neolithic
excavations from across South Asia warrants a new overview of early agriculture in the …

The beginning of agriculture is one of the most important developments in human history,
with enormous consequences that paved the way for settled life and complex society. Much …

The transition between wild plant forms and domesticated species can be considered an
evolutionary adaptation by plants in response to a human driven ecology. Evidence from …