Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Cultivated Plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile ValleyClarendon Press, 1988 - 249 pages In this definitive volume, the authors review the origin and subsequent spread of the plants on which Old World food production was founded. Their account is based on the detailed consideration of the plant remains found at archaeological sites and accumulated knowledge about the present-day wild relatives of cultivated plants. |
Contents
Sources of evidence for the origin and spread of cultivated | 1 |
Cereals | 13 |
Pulses | 83 |
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3rd millennium BC 5th millennium BC aestivum agriculture Archaeological evidence Avena barley rare bitter vetch bread wheats brittle broad bean broomcorn millet cereals Chalcolithic chickpea chromosome Corylus avellana cultivars culture diploid diploid 2n distributed domestication early Bronze Age early Neolithic East Egypt einkorn wheat einkorn wheat frequent einkorn wheat rare emmer wheat emmer wheat frequent emmer wheat prevailing Europe flax fruit trees genetic genomic genus grape vine Helbaek hexaploid Hopf hulled six-rowed barley hybridization interfertile Iran Kroll late Neolithic lentil Malus Mediterranean basin morphological naked barley naked six-rowed barley Neolithic and Bronze Numerous remains Old World olive pea rare Pistacia atlantica plant remains pollination Renfrew Rich remains sativa Scarce remains six-rowed barley frequent six-rowed barley prevailing species spelta wheat spikelets subsp sylvestris Tell Abu Hureyra tetraploid threshing Triticum turgidum Turkey two-rowed barley types Vitis weeds weedy west Asia wheat and barley wild forms wild progenitors Zeist Zohary