The Tangled Roots of Agriculture

2010/01/21 by Michael Balter · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Ancient Near East History #Marine and environmental studies

paper · doi:10.1126/science.327.5964.404

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Abstract

A once-popular view that climate change led the Near East's ancient Natufians to begin domesticating plants and animals is under increasing attack, but alternative paradigms are still being formed.

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