The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in

In this major new volume, leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe. Whereas previous overviews have focused either on Europe or on southwest Asia, this volume considers the transition from a pan-regional perspective, thus making a significant contribution to our understanding of the processes and dynamics in the transition to food production on both continents. It will be relevant to students, researchers, practitioners and instructors in archaeology, archaeobotany, agrobotany, agricultural history, anthropology, area studies, economic history and cultural development.

Introduction : key themes in interregional approaches to the study of early crops and fanning
Diverse origins : regional contributions to the genesis of farming	p. 1
The adoption of farming and the beginnings of the Neolithic in the Euphrates valley : cereal exploitation between the 12th and 8th millennia cal B.C.	p. 21
East of Eden? : a consideration of neolithic crop spectra in the eastern Fertile Crescent and beyond	p. 37
A review and synthesis of the evidence for the origins of farming on Cyprus and Crete	p. 53
Transitions to agriculture in the Aegean : the archaeobotanical evidence	p. 75
Archaeobotanical data from the early Neolithic of Bulgaria	p. 93
The spread of cultivated plants in the region between the Carpathians and Dniester, 6th-4th millennia cal B.C.	p. 111
Seed and fruit remains associated with neolithic origins in the Carpathian Basin	p. 125
Neolithic agriculture in Italy : an update of archaeobotanical data with particular emphasis on northern settlements	p. 141
Crop evolution : new evidence from the Neolithic of west Mediterranean Europe	p. 155
Early agriculture in central and southern Spain	p. 173
First farmers along the coast of the Bay of Biscay	p. 189
Early agriculture and subsistence in Austria : a review of neolithic plant records	p. 209
Neolithic plant economies in the northern Alpine Foreland from 5500-3500 cal B.C.	p. 221
Archaeobotanical perspectives on the beginning of agriculture north of the Alps	p. 259
Early farming in Slovakia : an archaeobotanical perspective	p. 295
Early neolithic agriculture in south Poland as reconstructed from archaeobotanical plant remains	p. 315
Neolithic plant husbandry in the Kujawy region of central Poland	p. 327
Nature or culture? : cereal crops raised by neolithic farmers on Dutch loess soils	p. 343
The plant remains from the Neolithic Funnel Beaker site of Wangels in Holsatia, Northern Germany	p. 349
Exploitation of plant resources in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of southern Scandinavia : from gathering to harvesting	p. 359
Reconsidering the evidence : towards an understanding of the social contexts of subsistence production in neolithic Britain	p. 375
On the importance of cereal cultivation in the British Neolithic	p. 391
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