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[https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/63/2/617/501600 by Dorian Q. Fuller, George Willcox, Robin G. Allaby 4/11/11 OXFORD ACADEMIC] | [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. | 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. | ||
=====Origin and Environmental Setting of Ancient Agriculture in the Lowlands of Mesoamerica===== | |||
[https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.292.5520.1370 by Kevin O. Pope, Mary E. D. Pohl, John G. Jones, David L. Lentz, Christopher von Nagy, Francisco J. Vega, and Irvy R. Quitmyer 18/5/01 Science] | |||
Archaeological research in the Gulf Coast of Tabasco reveals the earliest record of maize cultivation in Mexico. The first farmers settled along beach ridges and lagoons of the Grijalva River delta. Pollen from cultivated Zea appears with evidence of forest clearing about 5100 calendar years B.C. (yr B.C.) [620014C years before the present (yr B.P.)]. LargeZea sp. pollen, typical of domesticated maize (Zea mays), appears about 5000 calendar yr B.C. (6000 yr B.P.). AManihot sp. pollen grain dated to 4600 calendar yr B.C. (5800 yr B.P.) may be from domesticated manioc. About 2500 calendar yr B.C. (4000 yr B.P.), domesticated sunflower seeds and cotton pollen appear as farming expanded. | |||
