Societal Impact Statement Agrobiodiversity is central to sustainable farming worldwide.
Cultivation, conservation and reintroduction of diverse plant species, including 'forgotten'and …

Interdisciplinary teams investigating the origins of agriculture in the Eastern Fertile Crescent
in the 1950s through 1970s considered the region a primary center of initial domestication …

While it is widely accepted that the five main fruit trees that established horticulture in the late
prehistoric period are: olive (Olea europaea), common fig (Ficus carica), grapevine (Vitis …

Abstract Club-rush (Bolboschoenus spp.(Asch.) Palla) is one of the most common edible
wild plant taxa found at Epipaleolithic and Neolithic sites in southwest Asia. At the Early …

More than 10 years have passed since a number of publications presented evidence for the
possible cultivation of wild cereals based on charred remains of potential arable weeds and …

The data distribution for plant domestication in the various parts of Anatolia is uneven and
quite scarce or altogether missing for large tracts of the region. The Southeastern Taurus …

Recent excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of Sharara (ca. 9250 cal bc) in
southern Jordan have yielded a rich assemblage of charred macrobotanical remains. The …

Beginning in the Levant at the end of the Pleistocene era 11,700 years ago and emerging
subsequently in other regions, the advent of farming and food production sustained a …

A wild relative of the garden pea, formerly called Pisum sativum L., but now included in the
genus Lathyrus, is illustrated, and its relationship to cultivated peas is discussed. Recent …

Previous archaeobotanical research in Southwest Asia focused on the Neolithic 'founder
crops'. The Founders project revisits this concept and the economic role these species …