Plant Domestication (Other Keyword)

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The Age and Distribution of the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris ) in Tennessee and the Southeastern U.S. (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Baumann. Gary Crites.

Arriving after AD 1000, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) was the last domesticated plant to be adopted in the prehistoric Eastern Woodlands. Beans were combined with corn and squash to create the "three sisters" agricultural system. Recent scholarship has argued that the earliest beans entered the eastern US from the lower Plains and through the Great Lakes. When and how beans entered into the southeastern U.S. is not clearly understood because very few beans have been directly dated. New...

De-centering the Fertile Crescent: Multiple Pathways to Food Production (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leilani Lucas. Dorian Fuller.

Southwest Asia is one of the earliest and most documented centres of agricultural origins. With the expansion of archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological datasets within this region it is now more possible to unravel the evidence on a broader regional scale revealing a more complex picture with multiple centers and pathways of plant and animal domestication. Through a comparison of recent evidence this paper examines the multiple pathways towards domestication and the transition to agricultural...

Domesticating People and Plants in the Greater Southwest (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul E. Minnis.

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Domestication of Food Plants in the Old World (1959)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Helback.

Early cultivation practices and plant domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Denham.

Early cultivation practices and plant domestication in the New Guinea and Island Southeast Asian regions were largely based on the vegetative propagation of a range of plant types – including root crops, shrubs, grasses and herbs – as well as the transplantation of palms, pandans and trees. The character of early agricultural practices within these regions, as well as in tropical rainforest environments elsewhere, requires different conceptual and methodological approaches than have been adopted...

From Frontier to Forefront: Microbotanical Evidence of Early Holocene Horticulture in the Middle Cauca Valley, Colombia (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Dickau. Javier Aceituno. Anthony Ranere.

Archaeological research in the Middle Cauca region of Colombia has identified significant human presence during the early to middle Holocene (10,600-3600 uncal BP), associated with lithic technology focused on plant processing (e.g. handstones, milling stone bases, and "hoes"). Starch residue analysis on these tools has documented the early availability and use of several domesticates; both exogenous, such as maize (Zea mays) and manioc (Manihot esculenta), and possibly indigenous, such as...

Independent Domestication of Indigenous Seed-Bearing Plants in Eastern North America - Draft (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce D. Smith.

Insights into the Context, Mode, and Timing of Potato Domestication through Microfossil and Ground Stone Analyses at Jiskairumoko in the Western Titicaca Basin (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Rumold.

The data presented in this poster provide novel and direct microfossil evidence for the exploitation of potato (Solanum tuberosum) approximately 5000 years ago at Jiskairumoko, an early village site in the south-central Andes. In the Andes, elucidating the trajectory of potato domestication is central to an overall understanding of the development of agriculture, as this crop was perhaps one of the most important of the autochthonous highland Andean suite. Nevertheless, efforts to elucidate the...

The Original (Affluent) Cooperative: Property Rights and the Foraging Mode of Production (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Crothers.

Property-rights require fundamental forms of cooperation. On a global scale, foragers maintained open-access property regimes, in which no one is excluded from using resources. In the most basic form, foragers cooperate simply by avoiding conflict—agreeing to share. These conditions will hold as long as the cost of excluding others from a resource exceeds the benefits derived from that resource and because cooperation increases reproductive success under conditions of low population density—in...

Origins of Food Production in the New World. In American Arch. Past and Future: a Celeb. of the Soc. for American Arch (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara L. Stark.

Origins of Plant Domestication in the Eastern United States: Promoting the Individual In Archaeological Theory (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guy Prentice.

Role of Chenopodium As a Domesticate In Pre-Maize Garden Systems of the Eastern United States (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce D. Smith.

The Role of Chenopodium as a Domesticate in Premaize Garden Systems of the Eastern United States (1992)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce D. Smith.

Sedentism and plant domestication: North west Amazonia (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Santiago Mora.

Two different scenarios have been proposed to explain sedentarization and the transition from foraging to sedentary societies. In the first a key resource or a combination of resources allows the stability of the population giving rise, over time, to sedentarization; in the second, a population concentration caused by an external change such as drastic climatic fluctuation or regional population increase with its concomitant social problems force the adoption of a sedentary way of life. In these...

Un-entangling Pulse Domestication in South Asia (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlene Murphy.

India possesses a unique Neolithic transition to sedentism and agriculture which has shaped the cultural and ecological trajectory of the subcontinent. In the early Holocene South Asia was a subcontinent of hunter-gatherers. By 2000 years ago it was mostly inhabited by farmers, supporting densely populated river valleys, coastal plains, urban populations, states and empires. South Asia appears to have been host to a mosaic of processes, including local domestication of plants and animals, the...