Plant domestication and the origins of agriculture in the ancient Near East
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Plant domestication and the origins of agriculture in the ancient Near East
Cambridge University Press, 2022
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Index: p. 265-270
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Agricultural Revolution - including the domestication of plants and animals in the Near East - that occurred 10,500 years ago ended millions of years of human existence in small, mobile, egalitarian communities of hunters-gatherers. This Neolithic transformation led to the formation of sedentary communities that produced crops such as wheat, barley, peas, lentils, chickpeas and flax and domesticated range of livestock, including goats, sheep, cattle and pigs. All of these plants and animals still play a major role in the contemporary global economy and nutrition. This agricultural revolution also stimulated the later development of the first urban centres. This volume examines the origins and development of plant domestication in the Ancient Near East, along with various aspects of the new Man-Nature relationship that characterizes food-producing societies. It demonstrates how the rapid, geographically localized, knowledge-based domestication of plants was a human initiative that eventually gave rise to Western civilizations and the modern human condition.
Table of Contents
- 1. What Is the Agricultural Revolution?
- 2. From Hunters-Gatherers to Farmers in the Near East: Archaeological Background
- 3. Models that Describe and Explain the Agricultural Revolution, Including Plant Domestication
- 4. The Plant Formations of the Fertile Crescent and the Wild Progenitors of the Domesticated Founder Crops in the Near East
- 5. The Difference Between Wild and Domesticated Plants
- 6. Traditional versus Modern Agriculture
- 7. The Differences between Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution under Traditional and Modern Farming Systems
- 8. The Differences between Cereal and Legume Crops in the Near East
- 9. The Choice of Plant Species as Domestication Candidates
- 10. Where and When Did Near Eastern Plant Domestication Occur?
- 11. Domestication of Fruit Trees in the Near East
- 12. Plant Evolution under Domestication
- 13. A Global View of Plant Domestication in Other World Regions: Asia, Africa and America
- 14. Animal domestication in the Near East
- 15. Plant Domestication and Early Near Eastern Agriculture: Summary and Conclusions.
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