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Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield S1 4ET, UK
M. Wallace
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Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont St, Oxford, OX1 2PG, UK
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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.
The transition from a mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one of settled agriculture is arguably...
