(Ebook) Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient Near East 1st Edition by Shahal Abbo, Avi Gopher, Gila Kahila Bar Gal ISBN 9781108493642 1108493645

(Ebook) Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient Near East 1st Edition by Shahal Abbo, Avi Gopher, Gila Kahila Bar Gal ISBN 9781108493642 1108493645

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Author: Shahal Abbo, Avi Gopher, Gila Kahila Bar Gal

(Ebook) Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient Near East 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. What Is the Agricultural Revolution?

   • Hunter-Gatherers and Food-Producing Farmers

     • Nature of Occupation Sites and Mobility Patterns

     • Social Structure and Organization

     • Economy

     • Demography

     • Worldviews

   • Key Points and Beyond

2. From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers in the Near East: Archaeological Background

   • The Epipaleolithic Period

   • The Neolithic Period

   • Key Points and Beyond

3. Models That Describe and Explain the Agricultural Revolution, Including Plant Domestication

   • Obtaining, Organizing, Employing and Transmitting Knowledge among Hunter-Gatherers

   • Models That Describe and Explain the Onset of Agriculture

     • Childe's Oasis Theory

     • The Nuclear Zone Theory

     • The Marginal Zone Theory

     • The Dump-Heap Hypothesis

     • The Niche-Construction Model

     • The Competitive Feasting Theory

     • The Ideological Model of Jacques Cauvin

   • On the Pace of Plant Domestication and the Awareness of the Domesticators

   • Key Points and Beyond

4. The Plant Formations of the Fertile Crescent and the Wild Progenitors of the Domesticated Founder Crops

   • Key Points and Beyond

5. The Difference between Wild and Domesticated Plants

   • Key Points and Beyond

6. Traditional versus Modern Agriculture - Stability vs. Maximization

   • Key Points and Beyond

7. The Differences between Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution under Traditional and Modern Farming Systems

   • Key Points and Beyond

8. The Differences between Cereal and Legume Crops in the Near East

   • Comments on Broad (Faba) Bean, a Legume of No Known Wild Ancestry

   • Flax: Neither Cereal, nor Legume

   • Key Points and Beyond

9. The Choice of Plant Species for Domestication: Agronomic and Dietary Considerations

   • Key Points and Beyond

10. Where, When and How Did Near Eastern Plant Domestication Occur?

    • Key Points and Beyond

11. Domestication of Fruit Trees in the Near East

    • Key Points and Beyond

12. Plant Evolution under Domestication

    • Key Points and Beyond

13. A Global View of Plant Domestication in Other World Regions: Asia, Africa and America

    • Key Points and Beyond

14. Animal Domestication in the Near East

    • The Biogeography of the Region

    • Ecology, Distribution and Description of the Four Wild Progenitors of Livestock

      • Bezoar Wild Goat

      • Wild Sheep (Mouflon)

      • Aurochs

      • Wild Boar

    • Description of the 'Big Four' Domesticated Livestock

      • Goat

      • Sheep

      • Cattle

      • Pig

    • The When and Where of Animal Domestication in the Near East

    • Comparing the Three Ruminant Species

    • The Biological Differences between Wild and Domesticated Animals

    • Evolutionary Mechanisms of Animal Domestication

      • Commensalism, Habituation, and Proto-Domestication

      • Niche Construction

      • Punctuated Equilibrium

    • Archaeozoological Record Interpretation

    • Effect of Animal Domestication on Human Communities

    • Breed Development

    • Motivations for Animal Domestication

    • Key Points and Beyond

15. Plant Domestication and Early Near Eastern Agriculture: Summary and Conclusions

    • Plant Domestication: Where and When?

    • Botanical, Biological and Agronomic Aspects

    • Time Frame and Pace of Domestication

    • Fruit Trees

    • Genetic Diversity and the Future of Food Production

    • Spread and Institutionalization

    • Historical and Perceptual Aspects of Domestication

    • Why Domestication? Why Agriculture?

Supplementary Sections

• Notes

• Further Reading

  • By Shahal Abbo, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Avi Gopher, and Partners

  • By Other Authors

• References (Chapter 14)

• Glossary: Basic Concepts in Genetics, Botany, Ecology, Agronomy and Zoology

• Index

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