Zohary and Hopf coined the term 'founder crops' to refer to a specific group of eight plants,
namely three cereals (einkorn, emmer and barley), four legumes (lentil, pea, bitter vetch and …

Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This
grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of 'domestication'as …

Crop domestication arises from a coevolutionary process between plants and humans,
resulting in predictable and improved resources for humans. Of the thousands of edible …

Interdisciplinary teams investigating the origins of agriculture in the Eastern Fertile Crescent
in the 1950s through 1970s considered the region a primary center of initial domestication …

We synthesise the results of a large programme of plant ecological research to investigate
the selective pressures driving crop domestication and the origins of agriculture in western …

We examine the changing importance of wild starch rich plant staples, predominantly tree
nuts, in early agricultural societies in East Asia and Europe, focusing on Korea, Japan, and …

Southeast Anatolia is home to some of the earliest and most spectacular Neolithic sites
associated with the beginning of cultivation and herding in the Old World. In this article we …

Were the ancient Coast Salish farmers? Conventional anthropological wisdom asserts that
the ethnographically known communities of the Northwest Coast of North America were …

We explore the ways in which residents of Neolithic Çatalhöyük in Anatolia differentiated
themselves as well as the ways in which they did not. We integrate numerous data sets in …

The site of Körtiktepe in southeastern Turkey is one of few sites in the Upper Mesopotamia
basin that attests continuous, permanent occupation across the boundary from end of the …