Agricultural Origins: Centers and Noncenters; A Near Eastern Reappraisal

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The Impact of Genetic Changes during Crop Domestication (2018, background): “While these regions clearly lie outside a discretely defined core area [21], they do occur within “interacting socio-cultural spheres” [22], making it difficult to be certain about their independent, polyphyletic origin.”
Plant Fiber Formation: State of the Art, Recent and Expected Progress, and Open Questions (2012, background): “The fiber crop, flax, was among the first eight plant species domesticated by humans in the Near East (Lev-Yadun et al., 2000; Zohary and Hopf, 2000; Abbo et al., 2010).”
Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution in the Near East: On Events and Processes (2012, background): “Genetic studies and phytogeographic data lend strong support to this view (see Abbo et al., 2010a) while seemingly opposing views such as Kilian et al.’s (2007) or Özkan et al.’s (2011) suggesting (pseudo) autonomous multi-domestication events of wheat (einkorn and emmer) are inconclusive.”
Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “…suggest similarly multi-focal processes, with many instances in which only a single crop was initially cultivated, undermining the inference of Abbo et al. (2010, 2011) that an overlapping package of crops was a necessary condition of early agriculture, and that therefore the region of…”