The origins of agriculture [electronic resource] : an international perspective / edited by C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson ; with the assistance of Nancy L. Benco.
Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.Edition: [New ed.]Description: xvii, 224 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 630/.93 22
- GN779.A4 O75 2006eb
- 15.32
Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992.
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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