Documenting domestication
Melinda A. Zeder
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Documenting domestication
by Melinda A. Zeder, Bruce D. Smith, Daniel Bradley
Published
2006
Publisher
University of California Press
Pages
375
ISBN-13
9780520932425
Description
Agriculture is the lever with which humans transformed the earth over the last 10,000 years and created new forms of plant and animal species that have forever altered the face of the planet. In the last decade, significant technological and methodological advances in both molecular biology and archaeology have revolutionized the study of plant and animal domestication and are reshaping our understanding of the transition from foraging to farming, one of the major turning points in human history. This groundbreaking volume for the first time brings together leading archaeologists and biologists working on the domestication of both plants and animals to consider a wide variety of archaeological and genetic approaches to tracing the origin and dispersal of domesticates. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in this quickly changing field as well as reviews of recent findings on specific crop and livestock species in the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa. Offering a unique global perspective, it explores common challenges and potential avenues for future progress in documenting domestication.
Subjects
On the origin of species by means of natural selection
The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Mutual Aid
Sapiens
Introduction to genetic analysis
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Who is the author of Documenting domestication?
Documenting domestication was written by Melinda A. Zeder, Bruce D. Smith, Daniel Bradley.
When was Documenting domestication published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 2006. The original work may have been published on a different date.