The distribution, natural habitats and availability of wild cereals in relation to their domestication in the Near East: multiple events, multiple centres

By G. Willcox. 2005

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Subfields: Anthropology, Ecology, Paleontology

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In Anthropology

1. D. Fuller
2. M. Zeder
3. S. Lev-Yadun
4. S. Abbo
5. A. Gopher
6. Robin G. Allaby
7. T. Vegas-Vilarrúbia
8. M. Feldman

In Ecology

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

In Paleontology

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

Citations in the corpus

• Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “Nevertheless, there has been a growing body of studies that do not fit with any one core area, but suggest a dispersed group of parallel processes (Allaby et al. 2010; Asouti 2010; Belfer-Cohen and Goring Morris 2010; Brown et al. 2009; Fuller 2007, 2008; Nesbitt 2004; Willcox 2005; Zeder 2009).”
• Cultivated einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum L. subsp. monococcum): the long life of a founder crop of agriculture (2014, background): “Transport could have involved migrating farmers (Renfrew 2002) or exchange of seeds for other goods (Willcox 2005).”
• Contrasting Patterns in Crop Domestication and Domestication Rates: Recent Archaeobotanical Insights from the Old World (2007, background): “…only one-grained, but archaeobotanical evidence indicates the presence of one of these two grained forms as a wild cereal from the late Pleistocene in Syria (Hillman, 2000; Willcox, 2002, 2005), and later as a domesticated cereal in Syria, Turkey and into Neolithic Europe (Kreuz and Boenke, 2002).”
• Quaternary palaeoecology and nature conservation: a general review with examples from the neotropics (2011, background): “BP (Willcox, 2005; Piperno and Dillehay, 2008; Crawford, 2009).”
• 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.”
• Discriminating wild vs domestic cereal harvesting micropolish through laser confocal microscopy (2014, background): “Archaeobotanical data suggest that the invention of agriculturewas amulti-regional process within the context of the Near East (Willcox, 2005).”
• Domestication of emmer wheat and evolution of free-threshing tetraploid wheat (2007, background): “Its distribution in the Euphrates basin is limited because most of the soils there are calcareous (Willcox, 2005).”
• Geographic distribution and domestication of wild emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccoides) (2010, background): “…have involved migrating farmers (Nadel 2002; Renfrew 2002) or exchange between sedentary groups; it resulted in crops arriving in areas where climatic and soil conditions did not allow them to grow naturally, but where man with his knowledge of plant husbandry could cultivate them (Willcox 2005).”
• Pathways to Asian Civilizations: Tracing the Origins and Spread of Rice and Rice Cultures (2011, background): “…to Fan Li (deceased), Zhang Chi and Qin Ling for hosting me at the excavations and allowing me to look at floats. appearance of domesticates appears to be a diffuse process across a wide region rather than focused on any one core region (Willcox 2005; Allaby et al. 2010; Fuller et al. 2011c, d).”
• Agricultural Origins: Centers and Noncenters; A Near Eastern Reappraisal (2010, methodology): “Willcox (2005) for example, suggests that each cereal species was domesticated in a different place by virtue of its varying ecological preferences.”
• The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “This model is more in line with archaeological evidence indicating that multiple communities from southeastern Turkey to the Middle Euphrates were involved in a protracted process of cultivation of both local and imported wild progenitors of later crop plants (Willcox 2005).”
• Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution in the Near East: On Events and Processes (2012, background): “…plant species may have been adopted more than once (Allaby et al., 2008a; Allaby, 2010; Gross and Olsen, 2010) and probably in several independent locations (e.g., Ladizinsky, 1998a; Ladizinsky and Genizi, 2001; Willcox, 2005; Weiss et al., 2006; Morrell and Clegg, 2007; Allaby et al., 2010).”
• Early Holocene cultivation before domestication in northern Syria (2008, background): “The distance would have varied depending on the climatic conditions and the relative positions of the sites (Willcox 2005).”