Identifying crop plants with phytoliths (and starch grains) in Central and South America: A review and an update of the evidence

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Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “Archaeobotanical and archaeological data are scarce in the area (but see Dickau 2009; Pickersgill 2007; Piperno 2009), but the contrast between the presumed areas of origin of native Amazonian crops in peripheral zones and the areas of high genetic diversity at the time of European conquest suggest…”