Early Agriculture

In the News . . .

'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)

Stone Age Milk Use Began 2,000 Years Earlier -- National Geographic News (8/6/08)

• Love of Milk Dated Back to 6000 B.C. -- LiveScience (8/6/08)
• Early Europeans Quickly Got a Taste for Milk -- New Scientist (8/12/08)

Agriculture and Pastoralism -- About

Archaeology of Maize

Archaeology on the Net

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)

EARLIEST AGRICULTURE IN THE NEW WORLD -- SPENCER P.M. HARRINGTON

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

Transitions in Prehistory -- Tim Appenzeller, Daniel Clery, and Elizabeth Culotta

World Food Habits Bibliography -- Archaeology and Prehistory -- Robert Dirks