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AFR Africa --- Africa --- archaeobotany --- ethnobotany --- history of plants --- exploitation --- vegetation analysis --- plant domestication --- symposium proceedings

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Plant and Crop Sciences. Plant Breeding and Genetics --- Plant genetics. --- Plant hybridization. --- Plant Genetic Resources, Gene Banks --- Plant Domestication.

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Plante de culture --- Crops --- Plante sauvage --- Wild plants --- Distribution géographique --- Geographical distribution --- Évolution --- evolution --- Germplasm --- 575.858 --- 633 --- 634 --- 635 --- #WPLT:syst --- #ABIB:atte --- Species. Speciation --- Field crops and their production --- Horticulture generally --- Garden plants. Gardening --- Plant and Crop Sciences. Plant Breeding and Genetics --- Evolution. --- Plant Genetic Resources, Gene Banks --- Plant Domestication --- Crops. --- Plant Domestication. --- 635 Garden plants. Gardening --- 634 Horticulture generally --- 633 Field crops and their production --- 575.858 Species. Speciation --- evolution.

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"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 favour of growing crops, and the creation of settled, sedentary communities. This shift into an agricultural lifestyle triggered the evolution of complex political and economic structures, and technological developments, and ultimately underpinned the rise of all the great civilizations of recent human history. Domestication of Plants in the Old World reviews and synthesizes the information on the origins and domestication of cultivated plants in the Old World, and subsequently the spread of cultivation from southwest Asia into Asia, Europe, and north Africa, from the very earliest beginnings. This book is mainly based on detailed consideration of two lines of evidences: the plant remains found at archaeological sites, and the knowledge that has accumulated about the present-day wild relatives of domesticated plants. This new edition revises and updates previous data and incorporates the most recent findings from molecular biology about the genetic relations between domesticated plants and their wild ancestors, and incorporates extensive new archaeological data about the spread of agriculture within the region. The reference list has been completely updated, as have the list of archaeological sites and the site maps."--Pub. desc.

Mediterranean regions --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Plants, Cultivated --- Origin of cultivated plants --- Prehistoric agriculture --- Prehistoric peoples --- History --- Origin --- Agriculture --- Food --- Agriculture, Prehistoric. --- Domestication --- Neolithic period. --- Plants, Cultivated. --- cereals. --- dye plants. --- fruit trees. --- geographical distribution. --- grain legumes. --- history. --- plant domestication. --- vegetable crops. --- History. --- Origin.

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This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions in human history: the origins of agriculture. Carefully balancing theory and detailed empirical study, and drawing from a series of ethnographic and archaeological case studies from eleven locations-including North and South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, the Near East, Africa, and the Pacific-the contributors to this volume examine the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and herding using a broad set of analytical models and concepts. These include diet breadth, central place foraging, ideal free distribution, discounting, risk sensitivity, population ecology, and costly signaling. An introductory chapter both charts the basics of the theory and notes areas of rapid advance in our understanding of how human subsistence systems evolve. Two concluding chapters by senior archaeologists reflect on the potential for human behavioral ecology to explain domestication and the transition from foraging to farming.

Human evolution. --- Human ecology. --- Human behavior. --- Agriculture, Prehistoric. --- Agriculture --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Action, Human --- Behavior, Human --- Ethology --- Human action --- Human biology --- Psychology --- Social sciences --- Psychology, Comparative --- Prehistoric agriculture --- Prehistoric peoples --- Origin of agriculture --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Domestication --- Origin. --- Origin --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Behavior --- Food --- History --- agriculture. --- andes. --- animal domestication. --- arabia. --- archaeology. --- arizona. --- cumberland. --- domestic animals. --- early civilization. --- ecology. --- environment. --- food production. --- foraging. --- fremont. --- hbe. --- highlands. --- history. --- human behavior. --- human behavioral ecology. --- hunting and gathering. --- indigenous culture. --- indigenous people. --- land use. --- madagascar. --- maize. --- mikea. --- neotropics. --- new guinea. --- nonfiction. --- oceania. --- pacific coast. --- plant domestication. --- rain barrier. --- science. --- valencia. --- wild animals.