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[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1287502/ by Ron Pinhasi 1,✉, Joaquim Fort 2, Albert J Ammerman 3 2005 NIH] | [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1287502/ by Ron Pinhasi 1,✉, Joaquim Fort 2, Albert J Ammerman 3 2005 NIH] | ||
The origins of early farming and its spread to Europe have been the subject of major interest for some time. The main controversy today is over the nature of the Neolithic transition in Europe: the extent to which the spread was, for the most part, indigenous and animated by imitation (cultural diffusion) or else was driven by an influx of dispersing populations (demic diffusion). | The origins of early farming and its spread to Europe have been the subject of major interest for some time. The main controversy today is over the nature of the Neolithic transition in Europe: the extent to which the spread was, for the most part, indigenous and animated by imitation (cultural diffusion) or else was driven by an influx of dispersing populations (demic diffusion). | ||
=====The Origin and Early Spread of Agriculture in the Old World===== | |||
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780444427038500063 by D. ZOHARI 1986 ScienceDirect] | |||
Definite signs of plant cultivation first appear in the Near East ‘arc’ at the second half of the 8th millennium B.C. and the 7th millennium B.C. The principal ‘founder crops’ discovered in the early Neolithic Near Eastern farming villages are: emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, barley, lentil, pea, bitter vetch, chickpea and flax. | |||
