From foraging to farming in Western and Eastern Asia

Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 57-91

  Bar Yosef, Ofer ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139019514.006     Document Type: Chapter

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