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May 5, 2015 · The oldest documented Neolithic cultures occur in the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia, more commonly known as the Near East. While future research may ultimately yield an even older Neolithic, it has been best and most thoroughly studied in this region. This chapter provides an overview of the Near Eastern Neolithic in the several terms like ...
- Alan H. Simmons
- 2015
Jun 19, 2021 · Domestication as here understood is one outcome of human–environment interactions whereby certain plants and animals undergo genetic changes resulting from their close relationship with humans, including increasing reliance on humans for survival and reproductive success. Domestication is thus an ongoing process and may be viewed as part of ...
- Daniel Fuks, Daniel Fuks, Nimrod Marom
- 10.1093/af/vfab010
- 2021
- Anim Front. 2021 May; 11(3): 20-29.
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This article reviews the available information on the founder grain crops (einkorn wheat, emmer wheat, barley, lentil, pea, chickpea, and flax) that started agriculture in Southwest Asia during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, some 11,000–10,000 years ago. It provides a critical assessment for recognizing domestication traits by focusing on two fields of study: biology and archaeobotany ...
- Ehud Weiss, Daniel Zohary
- 2011
as the critical area for understanding early domestication of both plants and animals (and see additionally Zeder 2011). (Note that we use the terms “Southwest Asia” and “NearEast arc” interchangeably in this article; we also use the term “Le-vant” to refer to the western horn of the Fertile Crescent in the Near East.)
Aug 8, 2002 · Plant and animal domestication is the most important development in the past 13,000 years of human history. ... These changes are particularly well understood for southwest Asia's Fertile Crescent ...
- Jared Diamond
- jdiamond@mednet.ucla.edu
- 2002
See also history of Mesopotamia. Origins of agriculture - Neolithic Revolution, Domestication, Irrigation: The domestication of plants and animals caused changes in their form; the presence or absence of such changes indicates whether a given organism was wild or a domesticate. On the basis of such evidence, one of the oldest transitions from ...
"Early History of Animal Domestication in Southwest Asia" published on by Oxford University Press. The domestication of livestock animals has long been recognized as one of the most important and influential events in human prehistory and has been the subject of scholarly inquiry for centuries.
