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Title The Origins of agriculture : an international perspective / edited by C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson with the assistance of Nancy L. Benco.

Imprint Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  630.9 Or4    ---  Available
Description xvi, 224 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Series Smithsonian series in archaeological inquiry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prehistoric plan domestication in East Asia -- The origins of Plant culitivation in the Near East -- Indigenous African agriculture -- The origins of crop agriculture in Europe -- Prehistoric plant husbandry in Eastern North America -- Earliest plant cultivation in the desert borderlands of North America -- The origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica and Central America -- The origins of plant cultivation in South America.
Subject Agriculture -- Origin.
Agriculture, Prehistoric.
Prehistoric peoples -- Food.
Plant remains (Archaeology)
Added Author Cowan, C. Wesley, 1951-
Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-
Benco, Nancy L.
ISBN 0874749913 (pbk.)
0874749905

 
    
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