Background Archaeobotany, the study of plant remains from sites of ancient human activity,
provides data for studying the initial evolution of domesticated plants. An important …

The innovations of agricultural production and their extensive dispersal promoted the
transformation of human livelihoods and profoundly influenced the evolution of human-land …

Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and
later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes …

Lactase persistence (LP) is common among people of European ancestry, but with the
exception of some African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian groups, is rare or absent …

In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and
why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of …

The Neolithic Revolution began 11,000 years ago in the Near East and preceded a
westward migration into Europe of distinctive cultural groups and their agricultural …

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 …

The origins of early farming and its spread to Europe have been the subject of major interest
for some time. The main controversy today is over the nature of the Neolithic transition in …

Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes.
Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented …

This paper debates claims that plant domestication occurred rapidly in a single restricted
sub-section of the Near Eastern Fertile Crescent. Instead we argue for numerous parallel …