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Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-16-1-2016
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18 Jan 2016
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The first shoots of a modern morphometrics approach to the origins of agriculture

V. Bonhomme, E. Forster, M. Wallace, E. Stillman, M. Charles, and G. Jones
How to cite. Bonhomme, V., Forster, E., Wallace, M., Stillman, E., Charles, M., and Jones, G.: The first shoots of a modern morphometrics approach to the origins of agriculture, Web Ecol., 16, 1–2, https://doi.org/10.5194/we-16-1-2016, 2016.
Received: 12 Oct 2015 – Revised: 04 Dec 2015 – Accepted: 09 Dec 2015 – Published: 18 Jan 2016
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The transition from a mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one of settled agriculture is arguably the most fundamental change in the development of human society (Lev-Yadun et al., 2000). The establishment of agricultural economies, emerging initially in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East (Nesbitt, 2002), required the domestication of crops; ancient plant remains recovered from early farming sites provide direct evidence for this process of domestication.
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