Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

By M. Zeder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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Humans and Scavengers: The Evolution of Interactions and Ecosystem Services (2014, background): “…and regulating services Food production arose independently in (at most) nine areas of the world, with the H. sapiens that inhabited the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East becoming the world’s first farmers and herders around 12,000 years ago (figure 1; Diamond 2002, Zeder 2008, Klein 2009).”
Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “The appearance of livestock also appears similarly diffuse (Conolly et al. 2011; Vigne 2008; 2011; Zeder 2008).”
Genome-Wide Analysis of the World's Sheep Breeds Reveals High Levels of Historic Mixture and Strong Recent Selection (2012, neutral): “[1].”
Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa (2017, background): “…was a complex and multifaceted process that, at different times and places, included historically-contingent factors of migration, diffusion, interaction and innovation (e.g., Fuller, 2006; Zeder, 2008; Barker, 2009; Baird et al., 2012; Denham, 2013; Spengler et al., 2014; among many others).”
Early dispersals of maize and other food plants into the Southern Caribbean and Northeastern South America (2015, background): “This lack of careful archaeological consideration of Caribbean coastal contexts as important scenarios for early plant dispersals not only applies to the continental portions of the Caribbean but also to the Antillean archipelago (Pag an-Jim enez, 2011a), a lineal group of islands that create an enc”
SEED DISPERSAL AND CROP DOMESTICATION: SHATTERING, GERMINATION AND SEASONALITY IN EVOLUTION UNDER CULTIVATION (2009, background): “Most archaeologists now assume that there were multiple independent centres of early cultivation and eventual domestication in the Near East (Nesbitt, 2004; Willcox, 2005;Weiss et al., 2006; Fuller, 2007a; Zeder, 2008) but further research is still needed to delineate these.”
Warring brothers: The complex interactions between wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris) in a conservation context (2014, neutral): “…to the most recent studies combining archaeology and genetic data, livestock domestication events for other species (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs) all occurred in the Near East around the same period between 8500 and 11,000 years BP (Zeder et al., 2006; Zeder, 2008, 2011; Vigne et al., 2011).”
9 Pathways to Animal Domestication (2012, methodology): “This distinctive herd management harvest profile is first detected in goat assemblages from the archaeological site of Ganj Dareh in the Central Zagros Mountains of modern-day Iran at about 10,000 calendar years ago (Zeder and Hesse 2000, Zeder 2006b, 2008b).”
Finding Fodder and Tracking Transhumance: Isotopic Detection of Goat Domestication Processes in the Near East (2012, background): “Conclusion The transition from hunting to herding was likely a complex, variegated process that involved decisions regarding subsistence, social relationships, and perhaps even ideology at multiple scales (Davis 2005; Verhoeven 2004; Zeder 2006b).”