Contrasting patterns in crop domestication and domestication rates: Recent archaeobotanical insights from the old world

Annals of Botany

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 903-924

  Fuller, Dorian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Cereals; Cultivation; Domestication; Hordeum; Oryza; Pennisetum; Pulses; Triticum; Vigna

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CEREAL; CULTIVATION; DOMESTICATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LEGUME; PALEOBOTANY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; BOTANY; CHINA; CROP; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGUME; MIDDLE EAST; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGY; BOTANY; CHINA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CULTURE; EVOLUTION; FABACEAE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; POACEAE; SEEDS;

AFRICA; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; FABACEAE; GLYCINE MAX; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; LENS CULINARIS; ORYZA; ORYZA SATIVA; PENNISETUM; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; PISUM SATIVUM; POACEAE; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM MONOCOCCUM; VIGNA; VIGNA ANGULARIS; VIGNA MUNGO; VIGNA RADIATA; VIGNA RADIATA VAR. RADIATA;

EID: 35349029115     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm048     Document Type: Review

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