The origins of agriculture
Subtitle: an international perspective
By: edited by C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson with the assistance of Nancy L. Benco.
Contributors: Cowan, C. Wesley, 1951-; Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-; Benco, Nancy L.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780817353490
Subjects: Agriculture -- Origin -- Congresses.; Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Congresses.; Prehistoric peoples -- Food -- Congresses.; Plant remains (Archaeology) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson; title: Prehistoric plant domestication in East Asia / Gary W. Crawford; title: The origins of plant cultivation in the Near East / Naomi F. Miller; title: Indigenous African agriculture / Jack R. Harlan; title: The origins of crop agriculture in Europe / Robin W. Dennell; title: Prehistoric plant husbandry in eastern North America / Bruce D. Smith; title: Earliest plant cultivation in the desert borderlands of North America / Paul E. Minnis; title: The origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica and Central America / Emily McClung de Tapia; title: The origins of plant cultivation in South America / Deborah M. Pearsall; title: Some concluding remarks / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson.