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Leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe.
List of contents
1: Diverse origins: regional contributions to the genesis of farming; 2: The adoption of farming and the beginnings of the Neolithic in the Euphrates valley: cereal exploitation between the 12th and 8th millennia cal BC; 3: East of Eden? A consideration of neolithic crop spectra in the eastern Fertile Crescent and beyond; 4: A review and synthesis of the evidence for the origins of farming on Cyprus and Crete; 5: Transitions to agriculture in the Aegean: the archaeobotanical evidence; 6: Archaeobotanical data from the early Neolithic of Bulgaria; 7: The spread of cultivated plants in the region between the Carpathians and Dniester, 6th–4th millennia cal BC; 8: Seed and fruit remains associated with neolithic origins in the Carpathian Basin; 9: Neolithic agriculture in Italy: an update of archaeobotanical data with particular emphasis on northern settlements; 10: Crop evolution: new evidence from the Neolithic of west Mediterranean Europe; 11: Early agriculture in central and southern Spain; 12: First farmers along the coast of the Bay of Biscay; 13: Early agriculture and subsistence in Austria: a review of neolithic plant records; 14: Neolithic plant economies in the northern Alpine Foreland from 5500–3500 cal BC; 15: Archaeobotanical perspectives on the beginning of agriculture north of the Alps; 16: Early farming in Slovakia: an archaeobotanical perspective; 17: Early neolithic agriculture in south Poland as reconstructed from archaeobotanical plant remains; 18: Neolithic plant husbandry in the Kujawy region of central Poland; 19: Nature or culture? Cereal crops raised by neolithic farmers on Dutch loess soils; 20: The plant remains from the Neolithic Funnel Beaker site of Wangels in Holsatia, northern Germany 1; 21: Exploitation of plant resources in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of southern Scandinavia: from gathering to harvesting; 22: Reconsidering the evidence: towards an understanding of the social contexts of subsistence production in neolithic Britain; 23: On the importance of cereal cultivation in the British Neolithic
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Sue Colledge, James Conolly
Summary
Leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe.
