Domestication as innovation: The entanglement of techniques, technology and chance in the domestication of cereal crops

World Archaeology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-28

  Fuller, Dorian Q ^a   Allaby, Robin G ^b   Stevens, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural origins; Archaeobotany; Cultivation; Genetics; Neolithic

Indexed keywords

CEREAL; CROP PROCESSING; CULTIVATION; DOMESTICATION; GENETICS; HARVESTING; INNOVATION; NEOLITHIC; PALEOBOTANY; SOIL FERTILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 77951203351     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240903429680     Document Type: Article

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