Early Agriculture

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DNA Study Deals Blow to Theory of European Origins -- BBC News (23 August 2011)
From Hunter to Farmer: New Evidence from France -- Past Horizons (23 August 2011)
Peruvian Desert Once a Breadbasket -- Discovery News (16 August 2011)
The Root of Inequality? It's Down to Whether You Ploughed or Hoed... -- The Observer (31 July 2011)
Dawn of Agriculture Took Toll on Health -- Past Horizons (17 June 2011)
People Grew Shorter Growing Crops -- Discovery News (16 June 2011)
Farming Conquered Europe at Least Twice -- Science (31 May 2011)
Archaeologists Unravel the Origins of Architecture -- Past Horizons (11 May 2011)
Ancient Farmers Swiftly Spread Westward -- Discovery News (10 January 2011)
Sting in the Tail of Farming Revolution [an interview with Dr Spencer Wells, re Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (NY: Random House, 2010) -- BBC News (07 June 2010)

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'10,000-Year-Old' Seeds Debunked -- BBC News (09 July 2009)
1st Farm in Eastern U.S. Grown for Taste, Not Hunger? -- National Geographic (8 April 2009)
Agriculture -- United Nations Global Issues
Agriculture and Pastoralism -- About
Ancient Pig DNA Study Sheds New Light On Colonization Of Europe By Early Farmers -- ScienceDaily (4 September 2009)
Archaeology of Maize
Archaeology on the Net
video: The Ascent of Man: "The Harvest of the Seasons"(02 of 13) -- Jacob Bronowski [Bakhtiari, Central Iran; origin of agriculture; Neolithic; nomads] (52 min., 1974, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia VC 75)
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- Bronowski, Jacob. The Ascent of Man. BBC Books, 2011 [1974].
Bibliography of Agriculture and Pastoralism -- About
Characteristics of Domesticated Plants -- Kevin S. Beach
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture -- Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University
Corn's Roots Dig Deeper Into South America -- EurekAlert (3/24/08)
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)
EARLIEST AGRICULTURE IN THE NEW WORLD -- SPENCER P.M. HARRINGTON
Early Farmers 'Began Global Warming Process' -- Telegraph (17 August 2009)
Europe's 1st Farmers Were Segregated, Expert Immigrants -- National Geographic News (03 September 2009)
Europe's First Farmers Were Immigrants: Replaced Their Stone Age Hunter-gatherer Forerunners -- ScienceDaily (4 September 2009)
The Holocene
How the First Farmers Colonized the Mediterranean -- New York Times (8/11/08)
Iberian Peninsula's Earliest Agricultural Systems Were Unsustainable -- ScienceDaily (9/24/08)
National Agricultural Library -- United States Department of Agriculture
Neglected crops 1492 from a different perspective -- J.E. Hernández Bermejo and J. León
New excavations at Çatalhöyük, Turkey -- Anja Wolle
"Noah's Flood" May Have Triggered European Farming -- National Geographic News (11/20/07)
Origins of Agriculture -- Jason F. McBrayer

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ORIGIN OF RICE AGRICULTURE ON THE MIDDLE AND LOWER YANGTZE RIVER -- Ji-Wen ZHANG
Paleo-ethno-botany -- B. J. Winter
Photo Gallery Edible Plants of the World -- Michel H. Porcher
Plants and Judaism -- Tel Aviv University
Romans 'Brought Leeks to Wales' -- BBC News (9/23/08)
The Spread of Early Farming in Europe -- Peter Bogucki
Stone Age Milk Use Began 2,000 Years Earlier -- National Geographic News (06 August 2008)
Stone Man Joins Carved Animals in Neolithic Farmyard -- Guardian (10 September 2009)
Transitions in Prehistory -- Tim Appenzeller, Daniel Clery, and Elizabeth Culotta
World Food Habits Bibliography -- Archaeology and Prehistory -- Robert Dirks

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