02349nam a22004094a 4500 ebr10309857 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 051201r20061992aluab sb s101 0 eng 2005035142 0817353496 9780817353490 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)471131070 GN779.A4 O75 2006eb 630/.93 22 15.32 bcl The origins of agriculture [electronic resource] : an international perspective / edited by C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson ; with the assistance of Nancy L. Benco. [New ed.]. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006. xvii, 224 p. : ill., maps. 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. Agriculture Origin Congresses. Agriculture, Prehistoric Congresses. Prehistoric peoples Food Congresses. Plant remains (Archaeology) Congresses. Electronic books. local Cowan, C. Wesley, 1951- Watson, Patty Jo, 1932- Benco, Nancy L. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10309857 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 175806 175806