The origins of agriculture an international perspective / [electronic resource] : edited by C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson ; with the assistance of Nancy L. Benco. - [New ed.]. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006. - xvii, 224 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson -- Prehistoric plant domestication in East Asia / Gary W. Crawford -- The origins of plant cultivation in the Near East / Naomi F. Miller -- Indigenous African agriculture / Jack R. Harlan -- The origins of crop agriculture in Europe / Robin W. Dennell -- Prehistoric plant husbandry in eastern North America / Bruce D. Smith -- Earliest plant cultivation in the desert borderlands of North America / Paul E. Minnis -- The origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica and Central America / Emily McClung de Tapia -- The origins of plant cultivation in South America / Deborah M. Pearsall -- Some concluding remarks / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson.


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Agriculture--Origin--Congresses.
Agriculture, Prehistoric--Congresses.
Prehistoric peoples--Food--Congresses.
Plant remains (Archaeology)--Congresses.


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