ISBN:
9781108493642
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9781108737708
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 270 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
26 cm
Edition:
First edition
Uniform Title:
Biyut ha-tsemaḥ̣im u-reshit ha-ḥ̣aḳla'ut ba-Mizraḥ ha-Ḳarov
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als ʻAbo, Shaḥal Plant domestication and the origins of agriculture in the ancient Near East
DDC:
630.9394
Keywords:
Landwirtschaft
;
Neolithische Revolution
;
Alter Orient
;
Ethnobotany / Middle East
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Agriculture, Prehistoric / Middle East
;
Alter Orient
;
Neolithische Revolution
;
Landwirtschaft
Abstract:
Chapter 1. --What Is the Agricultural Revolution? --Chapter 2. --From hunters-gatherers to farmers in the Near East: archaeological background --Chapter 3. --Models that describe and explain the agricultural revolution, including plant domestication --Chapter 4. -- Theplant formations of the Fertile Crescent and the wild progenitors of the domesticated founder crops --Chapter 5. -- Thedifference between wild and domesticated plants --Chapter 6. --Traditional versus modern agriculture: stability vs. maximization --Chapter 7. -- Thedifferences between plant domestication and crop evolution under traditional and modern farming systems --Chapter 8. -- Thedifferences between cereal and legume crops in the Near East --Chapter 9. -- Thechoice of plant species for domestication: agronomic and dietary considerations --Chapter 10. --Where and when did near eastern plant domestication occur? --Chapter 11. --Domestication of fruit trees in the Near East --Chapter 12. --Plant evolution under domestication --Chapter 13. -- Aglobal view of plant domestication in other world regions: Asia, Africa and America --Chapter 14. --Animal domestication in the Near East by Gila Kahila Bar-Gal --Chapter 15. --Plant domestication and early Near Eastern agriculture: summary and conclusions
Abstract:
"The Agricultural Revolution - including the domestication of plants and animals in the Near East --- that occurred 10,500 years ago ended millions of years of human existence in small, mobile, egalitarian communities of hunters-gatherers. This Neolithic transformation led to the formation of sedentary communities that produced crops such as wheat, barley, peas, lentils, chickpeas and flax and domesticated range of livestock, including goats, sheep, cattle and pigs. All of these plants and animals still play a major role in the contemporary global economy and nutrition. This agricultural revolution also stimulated the later development of the first urban centres. This volume examines the origins and development of plant domestication in the Ancient Near East, along with various aspects of the new Man-Nature relationship that characterizes food-producing societies. It demonstrates how the rapid, geographically localized, knowledge-based domestication of plants was a human initiative that eventually gave rise to Western civilizations and the modern human condition"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
