The nature of domestication is often misunderstood. Most definitions of the process are
anthropocentric and center on human intentionality, which minimizes the role of …

Plant life defines the environments to which animals adapt and provides the basis of food
webs. This was equally true for hunter-gatherer economies of ancestral humans, yet through …

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

Sustainable agriculture in the future will depend on crops that are tolerant to biotic and
abiotic stresses, require minimal input of water and nutrients and can be cultivated with a …

The protracted domestication model posits that wild cereals in southwest Asia were
cultivated over millennia before the appearance of domesticated cereals in the …

Food crops are a vital source of nutrition for humans and domestic animals, with an
estimated 4 billion metric tons of food produced per year. Crops do not only provide yields …

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 …

Broomcorn and foxtail millet are the only major domesticated plants indigenous to
prehistoric Eurasia to rely on the C 4 photosynthetic pathway. Here we study the impact of …

Tappeh Sang-e Chakhmaq is the only Neolithic site in Northeastern Iran, characterised by
aceramic and ceramic levels corresponding to an occupation of 1500 years from the eighth …

Abstract 'New glume wheat'(NGW) is an archaeobotanical type increasingly recognised at
Neolithic–Bronze Age sites across Europe and Western Asia. NGW has been recognised via …