Science · 2000 · 596 citations · 7 references
HumanitiesAgronomyArchaeologyCrop ProductionCropping SystemsPlant Genetic ResourcesAgrarian HistoryAgricultural AnthropologyAgricultural HistoryAgricultural OriginsCrop OriginsDomesticationAgrarian SystemsAgricultural BeginningsAgriculture Origin NarrativesAgriculture OriginsCrop Domestication ReconstructionEarly AgricultureEarly Farming CommunitiesPaleographic Evidence
It has long been debated exactly where and when crops were first domesticated and farming began--events that directly contributed to the emergence of Western civilization. In their Perspective, Lev-Yadun and colleagues discuss botanical, genetic and archeological evidence suggesting that the cradle of agriculture lay within a small region of the Fertile Crescent (in what is now southeastern Turkey/ northern Syria) and began in the 7th millennium B.C.
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