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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Shahal Abbo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) , Avi Gopher (Tel-Aviv University) , Gila Kahila Bar-Gal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 18.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.90cm Weight: 0.760kg ISBN: 9781108493642ISBN 10: 1108493645 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 24 March 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. What Is the Agricultural Revolution?; 2. From Hunters-Gatherers to Farmers in the Near East: Archaeological Background; 3. Models that Describe and Explain the Agricultural Revolution, Including Plant Domestication; 4. The Plant Formations of the Fertile Crescent and the Wild Progenitors of the Domesticated Founder Crops in the Near East; 5. The Difference Between Wild and Domesticated Plants; 6. Traditional versus Modern Agriculture; 7. The Differences between Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution under Traditional and Modern Farming Systems; 8. The Differences between Cereal and Legume Crops in the Near East; 9. The Choice of Plant Species as Domestication Candidates; 10. Where and When Did Near Eastern Plant Domestication Occur?; 11. Domestication of Fruit Trees in the Near East; 12. Plant Evolution under Domestication; 13. A Global View of Plant Domestication in Other World Regions: Asia, Africa and America; 14. Animal domestication in the Near East; 15. Plant Domestication and Early Near Eastern Agriculture: Summary and Conclusions.ReviewsAuthor InformationShahal Abbo is an agronomist and plant geneticist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Through comparative study of grain legumes and cereals, both domesticated and wild, across Mediterranean agro-eco-systems, he has developed several new practical and conceptual tools pertaining to plant domestication and crop evolution. Avi Gopher is an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He has conducted research on time-space systematics – seriation analyses reconstructing both chronology and pace of the diffusion of Neolithic cultural elements in the interaction sphere of the early Neolithic in the Near East. Gopher is member of a research group on plant domestication in the Near East and focuses on the archaeological aspects.. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal is a molecular geneticist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She studies host-pathogen interaction and human activities that affect animals aimed at conserving future biodiversity. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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