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[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-world-history/early-agriculture-in-southeast-asia-and-the-pacific/7459760B5CFBEACB5D9007F9D8F0462C by Huw Barton 5/5/15 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS] | [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-world-history/early-agriculture-in-southeast-asia-and-the-pacific/7459760B5CFBEACB5D9007F9D8F0462C by Huw Barton 5/5/15 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS] | ||
Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) and island Southeast Asia (ISEA) form a complex geographic and political region consisting of eleven countries spread from India to China and New Guinea. The best evidence currently of an early vegecultural agriculture lies in the intermontane valleys of New Guinea at the site of Kuk Swamp. | Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) and island Southeast Asia (ISEA) form a complex geographic and political region consisting of eleven countries spread from India to China and New Guinea. The best evidence currently of an early vegecultural agriculture lies in the intermontane valleys of New Guinea at the site of Kuk Swamp. | ||
=====Ancient History of Agriculture===== | |||
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Developed independently by geographically distant populations, systematic agriculture first appeared in Southwest Asia with the bulk of domesticated neolthic crops and livestock now being traced to Turkey via DNA studies. The first grains of domesticated Turkish emmer wheat are found at Abu Hurerya dated to 13,500 BP. The only exceptions to this are barley, domesticated in two sites; in Israel, and East of the Zagros mountains in Iran. The eight so-called founder crops of agriculture appear: first emmer and einkorn wheat, then hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chick peas and flax. Bitter vetch and lentils along with almonds and pistachios appear in Franchthi Cave Greece simultaneously, about 9,000 BC. Neither are native to Greece, and they appear 2,000 years prior to domesticated wheat in the same location. This suggests that the cultivation of legumes and nuts preceded that of grain. | |||
