The origin of cultivation and proto-weeds, long before neolithic farming

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Snir, Ainit ^a   Nadel, Dani ^b   Groman Yaroslavski, Iris ^b   Melamed, Yoel ^a   Sternberg, Marcelo ^c   Bar Yosef, Ofer ^d   Weiss, Ehud ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARLEY; BOTANY; EMMER; EVOLUTION; FARMING SYSTEM; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); ISRAEL; NEOLITHIC; NONHUMAN; OAT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TILLAGE; WEED; WHEAT; CROP PRODUCTION; HISTORY; HORDEUM; HUMAN;

CROP PRODUCTION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HORDEUM; HUMANS; ISRAEL; PLANT WEEDS; TRITICUM;

EID: 84941800364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131422     Document Type: Article

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