More than 40years ago Kent Flannery coined the term Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) in
reference to a broadening of the subsistence base of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in …

Understanding the evolutionary history of crop plants is fundamental to our understanding of
their respective adaptation profiles, which in turn, is a key element in securing future yield …

The emerging picture of plant and animal domestication and agricultural origins in the Near
East is dramatically different from that drawn 16 years ago in a landmark article by Bar-Yosef …

The role of Iran as a center of origin for domesticated cereals has long been debated. High
stratigraphic resolution and rich archaeological remains at the aceramic Neolithic site of …

The Aceramic Neolithic (∼ 9600 to 7000 cal BC) period in the Zagros Mountains, western
Iran, provides some of the earliest archaeological evidence of goat (Capra hircus) …

The fungus Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici causes wheat powdery mildew disease. Here, we
study its spread and evolution by analyzing a global sample of 172 mildew genomes. Our …

The scale and nature of early cultivation are topics that have received relatively limited
attention in research on the origins of agriculture. In Southwest Asia, one the earliest centers …

Charred plant remains from the sites of Tell Qaramel, Jerf el Ahmar, Dja'de and Tell 'Abr
situated in northern Syria and dated to the tenth and ninth millennia cal bc. demonstrate that …

All forager (or hunter–gatherer) societies construct niches, many of them actively by the
concentration of wild plants into useful stands, small-scale cultivation, burning of natural …

Aşıklı Höyük is the earliest known preceramic Neolithic mound site in Central Anatolia. The
oldest Levels, 4 and 5, spanning 8,200 to approximately 9,000 cal BC, associate with round …