Shahal Abbo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Avi Gopher (Tel-Aviv University), Gila Kahila Bar-Gal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient Near East

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10,500 years ago. It is directed not only to an academic audience but to students, a broad readership of knowledge-seekers, and we believe it may be relevant to modern plant breeders, agronomists and farmers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 180mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 752g
• ISBN-13: 9781108493642
• ISBN-10: 1108493645
• Artikelnr.: 63118467

Autorenporträt

Shahal Abbo is an agronomist and plant geneticist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Through comparative study of grain legumes and cereals, both domesticated and wild, across Mediterranean agro-eco-systems, he has developed several new practical and conceptual tools pertaining to plant domestication and crop evolution.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What Is the Agricultural Revolution?
2. From Hunters-Gatherers to Farmers in the Near East: Archaeological Background
3. Models that Describe and Explain the Agricultural Revolution, Including Plant Domestication
4. The Plant Formations of the Fertile Crescent and the Wild Progenitors of the Domesticated Founder Crops in the Near East
5. The Difference Between Wild and Domesticated Plants
6. Traditional versus Modern Agriculture
7. The Differences between Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution under Traditional and Modern Farming Systems
8. The Differences between Cereal and Legume Crops in the Near East
9. The Choice of Plant Species as Domestication Candidates
10. Where and When Did Near Eastern Plant Domestication Occur?
11. Domestication of Fruit Trees in the Near East
12. Plant Evolution under Domestication
13. A Global View of Plant Domestication in Other World Regions: Asia, Africa and America
14. Animal domestication in the Near East
15. Plant Domestication and Early Near Eastern Agriculture: Summary and Conclusions.