Zohary and Hopf coined the term 'founder crops' to refer to a specific group of eight plants,
namely three cereals (einkorn, emmer and barley), four legumes (lentil, pea, bitter vetch and …

Triticum timopheevii sensu lato ('new glume wheat', NGW) was first recognised as a distinct
prehistoric cereal crop through work on archaeobotanical finds from Neolithic and Bronze …

Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This
grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of 'domestication'as …

Around 10,000 y ago in southwest Asia, the cessation of a mobile lifestyle and the
emergence of the first village communities during the Neolithic marked a fundamental …

Abstract 'New glume wheat'(NGW) is an archaeobotanical type increasingly recognised at
Neolithic–Bronze Age sites across Europe and Western Asia. NGW has been recognised via …

This article uses results from the recent excavations at Çatalhöyük in Turkey to propose that
continuous tensions between egalitarian and hierarchical impulses were dealt with in two …

Çatalhöyük is a renowned archaeological site in central Anatolia, best known for its Neolithic
occupation dated from 7100 to 6000 cal BC. The site received worldwide attention early on …

The integration of stable isotope analysis of crop remains with the ecological analysis of
archaeological weed flora allows for a detailed reconstruction of crop husbandry and arable …

Cattle traction was a technological innovation that made a significant impact on production,
individual and household wealth, and social organisation. Despite ongoing debates …

Current knowledge of the origins and routes of introduction of both tetraploid and hexaploid
free-threshing wheats (FTWs) from western Asia into Europe remains imprecise …