Autonomous Cultivation Before Domestication

By Ehud Weiss, M. Kislev, A. Hartmann. Science, 2006

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The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “…communities to increase the availability of certain economically important plant resources for hundreds of years before the manifestation of morphological indicators of plant domestication (Weiss, Kislev, and Hartmann 2006; Willcox, Buxó, and Herveux 2009; Willcox, Fornite, and Herveux 2008).”
The Neolithic Southwest Asian Founder Crops (2011, background): “Although it is beyond the scope of this article, it is important to mention the relatively new data available from Cyprus (e.g., Peltenburg et al. 2000, 2001; Vigne 2011; Vigne et al. 2000; Willcox 2000).”
Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “Pre-domestication cultivation has been inferred specifically at some ten sites from both the southern and northern Levant (Colledge 2001; Edwards et al. 2004; Harris 1998; Hillman et al. 2001; Van Zeist and De Roller 1992; Weiss et al. 2006; Willcox 2011; Willcox et al. 2008), although it might be s”
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).”
Distinguishing wild and domestic wheat and barley spikelets from early Holocene sites in the Near East (2012, background): “Keywords Wheat Barley Origins Near East Domestication Agriculture”
Contrasting Patterns in Crop Domestication and Domestication Rates: Recent Archaeobotanical Insights from the Old World (2007, methodology): “For this process and software, see the Oxford University Radiocarbon Laboratory webpage: http://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/.”
Domestication of emmer wheat and evolution of free-threshing tetraploid wheat (2007, background): “Indeed, archaeological evidence indicates that different Near Eastern communities cultivated various local species during the PPNA (Weiss et al., 2006).”
Cultivated einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum L. subsp. monococcum): the long life of a founder crop of agriculture (2014, background): “Tools for grinding seeds were found in the majority of Fertile Crescent sites well before the large seed remains of domesticated einkorn (Bar-Yosef 2002), supporting the view that humans in the region were familiar with the harvest of wild seeds (Weiss et al. 2006).”
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.”
Discriminating wild vs domestic cereal harvesting micropolish through laser confocal microscopy (2014, background): “However, recent archaeobotanical data show that domestication was a protracted process, which lasted for over a millennium (Tanno and Willcox, 2006), and was preceded by a stage of wild-cereal growing (Weiss et al., 2006).”
Presumed domestication? Evidence for wild rice cultivation and domestication in the fifth millennium BC of the Lower Yangtze region (2007, background): “In the Near East evidence suggests that pre-domestication cultivation was not brief, but lasted for one to two millennia (Tanno & Willcox 2006; Weiss et al. 2006).”
Agricultural Origins: Centers and Noncenters; A Near Eastern Reappraisal (2010, methodology): “Following Willcox (2005), Willcox and Tano (2006), Weiss et al. (2006), or Allaby (2008a), this would mean cultural isolation for hundreds of years or even millennia.”
Early Holocene cultivation before domestication in northern Syria (2008, background): “This species is not a common component of Near Eastern vegetation and is often restricted to small stands, making gathering an arduous task.”
Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution in the Near East: On Events and Processes (2012, background): “(2010b), and Purugganan and Fuller (2011) may accord with the idea of multiple (autonomous) cultivation foci across the Near East (e.g., Willcox, 2005; Weiss et al., 2006).”