The origins of agriculture : an international perspective / / edited by C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson ; with the assistance of Nancy L. Benco.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Cowan, C. Wesley, 1951-; Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-; Benco, Nancy L.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: [New ed.].
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvii, 224 p. :; ill., maps.
• Notes: Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992.

Table of Contents

• Introduction / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson
• Prehistoric plant domestication in East Asia / Gary W. Crawford
• The origins of plant cultivation in the Near East / Naomi F. Miller
• Indigenous African agriculture / Jack R. Harlan
• The origins of crop agriculture in Europe / Robin W. Dennell
• Prehistoric plant husbandry in eastern North America / Bruce D. Smith
• Earliest plant cultivation in the desert borderlands of North America / Paul E. Minnis
• The origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica and Central America / Emily McClung de Tapia
• The origins of plant cultivation in South America / Deborah M. Pearsall
• Some concluding remarks / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson.