TY - BOOK AU - Cowan,C.Wesley AU - Watson,Patty Jo AU - Benco,Nancy L. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The origins of agriculture: an international perspective AV - GN779.A4 O75 2006eb U1 - 630/.93 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Agriculture KW - Origin KW - Congresses KW - Agriculture, Prehistoric KW - Prehistoric peoples KW - Food KW - Plant remains (Archaeology) KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10309857 ER -