The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and EuropeSue Colledge, James Conolly In this major new volume, leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe. Whereas previous overviews have focused either on Europe or on southwest Asia, this volume considers the transition from a pan-regional perspective, thus making a significant contribution to our understanding of the processes and dynamics in the transition to food production on both continents. It will be relevant to students, researchers, practitioners and instructors in archaeology, archaeobotany, agrobotany, agricultural history, anthropology, area studies, economic history and cultural development. |
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The adoption of farming and the beginnings of the Neolithic in the Euphrates | 21 |
East of Eden? A consideration of neolithic crop spectra in the eastern Fertile | 37 |
A review and synthesis of the evidence for the origins of farming on Cyprus | 53 |
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Abu Hureyra agriculture archaeobotanical data archaeological assemblages Bandkeramik LBK barley Beaker culture Bromus carbonised Çatalhöyük ceramic cereal grains chaff charcoal charred plant Chenopodium contexts Cortaillod crops Cueva cultivated plants Cyprus dated domestic early Neolithic eastern einkorn emmer emmer grains Europe evidence excavated Fallopia convolvulus farming Fertile Crescent figure flax fragments free-threshing wheat Friulano di Storia fruits Galium glume glume wheat Hajnalová hazelnut Hillman Holocene Hopf Hordeum vulgare hulled wheats identified imprints Jacomet Kovačevo late Neolithic Lengyel culture lentil Linear Pottery culture Ludwigsburg material Mediterranean mesolithic middle Neolithic millennium cal BC Mureybet Museo Friulano naked barley naked wheat neolithic sites neolithisation Neolítico northern Peltenburg period Pessina Pfyn phase pits plant remains Polygonum poppy PPNB prehistoric present Prunus region Rottoli Sammardenchia samples seeds settlements species spelt spikelet storage studied taxa Taxon Triticum dicoccum Twann Udine Vicia weeds wild plants Willcox Zürich Zürich CH