A new functional ecological model reveals the nature of early plant management in southwest Asia
The protracted domestication model posits that wild cereals in southwest Asia were cultivated over millennia before the appearance of domesticated cereals in the archaeological record. These ‘pre-domestication cultivation’ activities are widely understood as entailing annual cycles of soil tillage a...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2022
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