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[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1908960116 by George R. Milner 26/6/19 PNAS] | [https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1908960116 by George R. Milner 26/6/19 PNAS] | ||
It is difficult to envision a world without agriculture. However, as recently as 10 millennia ago, only in the Near East had people turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture as a means of supporting themselves. One such place was Çatalhöyük in modern-day Turkey, the subject of Larsen et al.’s (1) work reported in PNAS (Fig. 1). Several more millennia would pass before a reliance on domesticated plants and animals became commonplace in both the Old and New Worlds. | It is difficult to envision a world without agriculture. However, as recently as 10 millennia ago, only in the Near East had people turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture as a means of supporting themselves. One such place was Çatalhöyük in modern-day Turkey, the subject of Larsen et al.’s (1) work reported in PNAS (Fig. 1). Several more millennia would pass before a reliance on domesticated plants and animals became commonplace in both the Old and New Worlds. | ||
=====Early agricultural pathways: moving outside the ‘core area’ hypothesis in Southwest Asia Free===== | |||
[https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/63/2/617/501600 by Dorian Q. Fuller, George Willcox, Robin G. Allaby 4/11/11 OXFORD ACADEMIC] | |||
The origins of agriculture in the Near East has been associated with a ‘core area’, located in south-eastern Turkey, in which all major crops were brought into domestication within the same local domestication system operated by a single cultural group. Such an origin leads to a scenario of rapid invention of agriculture by a select cultural group and typically monophyletic origins for most crops. | |||
