Early Holocene cultivation before domestication in northern Syria

By G. Willcox, Sandra Fornite, Linda Herveux. 2008

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Subfields: Archeology, History, Paleontology

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In Archeology

1. D. Fuller
2. Robin G. Allaby
3. S. Abbo
4. M. Zeder
5. O. Bar‐Yosef
6. S. Lev-Yadun
7. J. González-Urquijo
8. J. Gibaja

In History

1. M. Zeder
2. D. Fuller
3. G. Willcox

In Paleontology

1. D. Fuller
2. Robin G. Allaby
3. M. Zeder
4. S. Abbo
5. S. Lev-Yadun
6. A. Gopher
7. Ling Qin
8. G. Willcox

Citations in the corpus

• Distinguishing wild and domestic wheat and barley spikelets from early Holocene sites in the Near East (2012, background): “Further east on the Euphrates the PPNA site of Jerf el Ahmar and the early PPNB site of Dja’de produced evidence of predomestic agriculture (Willcox et al. 2008).”
• Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “Although this interpretation can be criticized (e.g. Denham 2007), it is nevertheless striking that figs have become a recurrent find on other early cultivation sites from the Early PPNB (e.g. Willcox et al. 2008).”
• SEED DISPERSAL AND CROP DOMESTICATION: SHATTERING, GERMINATION AND SEASONALITY IN EVOLUTION UNDER CULTIVATION (2009, background): “But if weed flora evidence for pre-domestication cultivation is accepted for Abu Hureyra and Mureybit (Colledge, 1998; Hillman et al., 2001; Willcox et al., 2008) and assumed to be continuous with later cultivation and domestication, then it should be”
• The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “…cereals before they were fully ripe or even gleaning shattered heads of grain from the ground might have led to the retention of the brittle rachis in cultivated cereals (Hartmann, Kislev, and Weiss 2006; Lev-Yadun, Gopher, and Abbo 2006; Tanno and Willcox 2006a; Willcox and Tanno 2006).”
• Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact (2008, background): “Researchers in the Fertile Crescent are detecting early signs of human ecosystem engineering aimed at encouraging plant production (24, 25); they are able to document the manipulation of herd structure to promote a secure and predictable yield of animal products (7, 8, 10, 11).”
• Domestication evolution, genetics and genomics in wheat (2011, background): “But this process was slow and establishment of the non-brittle ancient cultivar took over one millennium (Tanno and Willcox 2006; Balter 2007; Willcox et al. 2008).”
• Water management and labour in the origins and dispersal of Asian rice (2009, background): “Rice, unlike the cereals of the Near East, followed a trajectory into cultivation and domestication in which the manipulation of water and the deployment of intensive agriculture were central.”
• Geographic distribution and domestication of wild emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccoides) (2010, background): “Detailed archaeological reports by Hillman (2000), Willcox (2005), Weiss et al. (2006) and Willcox et al. (2008) demonstrated that pre-domestication cultivation of wild cereals probably lasted for centuries in the region.”
• The earliest finds of cultivated plants in Armenia: evidence from charred remains and crop processing residues in pisé from the Neolithic settlements of Aratashen and Aknashen (2008, background): “Alyssum was also found in concentrations at the early Neolithic site of Dja’de in Syria, suggesting that it may have been used there as well (Willcox et al. 2007); also from central Europe, in lake dwellings there are high frequencies of crucifer seeds which may have been used as oil plants (Schlich”
• Climatic Fluctuations and Early Farming in West and East Asia (2011, background): “Hunting the common game in the area and gathering wild plants provided a major part of the diet (Willcox, Fornite, and Herveux 2008).”
• The Neolithic Southwest Asian Founder Crops (2011, background): “We see now (and see Zeder 2011 for details and references) the first wave of animal domestication (all herbivores: goat, sheep, cow, and pig) more or less at the same time as early plant domestication.”
• Discriminating wild vs domestic cereal harvesting micropolish through laser confocal microscopy (2014, background): “Indirect evidence, such as the increase in the proportion of weeds, the quantity of sickle blades and their intensity of use, or the variety of cereal species, has been used to propose that the first experiences of cultivation took place during the PPNA, in the first half of the 10th millennium cal ”
• Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution in the Near East: On Events and Processes (2012, background): “BP Tell Abu-Hureyra (Hillman, 2000), and a series of other sites (Willcox et al., 2008, Tables 3, 4).”