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| Other authors / contributors: | Hopf, Maria, author.
Weiss, Ehud, author.
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| ISBN: | 9780191624254
019162425X
1280593741
9781280593741
9780191810046
0191810045
9780199549061
0199549060
9780199688173
0199688176
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-236) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000 years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in favour of growing crops, and the creation of settled, sedentary communities. This shift into an agricultural lifestyle triggered the evolution of complex political and economic structures, and technological developments, and ultimately underpinned the rise of all the great civilisations of recent humanhistory. Domestication of Plants in the Old World reviews and synthesises the information on the origins and domesticati.
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| Other form: | Print version: Zohary, Daniel. Domestication of plants in the Old World. 4th ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012 9780199549061
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