The origins of agriculture : an international perspective / edited by C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson ; with the assistance of Nancy L. Benco.
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TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006.Edition: [New ed.]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 224 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- Agriculture -- Origin -- Congresses
- Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Congresses
- Plant remains (Archaeology) -- Congresses
- Prehistoric peoples -- Food -- Congresses
- Agriculture -- Origines -- Congrès
- Agriculture préhistorique -- Congrès
- Restes de plantes (Archéologie) -- Congrès
- Homme préhistorique -- Alimentation -- Congrès
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General
- Agriculture -- Origin
- Agriculture, Prehistoric
- Plant remains (Archaeology)
- Prehistoric peoples -- Food
- Landbouw
- Ontstaansgeschiedenis
- Prehistorie
- 630/.93 22
- GN779.A4 O75 2006eb
- 15.32
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Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson -- Prehistoric plant domestication in East Asia / Gary W. Crawford -- The origins of plant cultivation in the Near East / Naomi F. Miller -- Indigenous African agriculture / Jack R. Harlan -- The origins of crop agriculture in Europe / Robin W. Dennell -- Prehistoric plant husbandry in eastern North America / Bruce D. Smith -- Earliest plant cultivation in the desert borderlands of North America / Paul E. Minnis -- The origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica and Central America / Emily McClung de Tapia -- The origins of plant cultivation in South America / Deborah M. Pearsall -- Some concluding remarks / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson.
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The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and Jack R. Harlan.
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