TABLE OF CONTENTS About ICARDA and the CGIAR Foreword Preface Contributors Distribution of Agricultural Origins: A Global Perspective - J.R. Harlan Part 1. Centers of Origins of Crop Plants and Agriculture    Back to Vavilov: Why Were Plants Domesticated in Some Areas and Not in...    Vavilov's Theories of Crop Domestication in the Ancient Mediterranean Area...    Archaeobotanical Evidence for the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southwest...    Syrian Origins of Safflower Production: New Discoveries in the Agrarian... Part 2. Near Eastern Crop Diversity and its Global Migration    Diversity of Major Cultivated Plants Domesticated in the Near East - A.B....    The Spread of Neolithic Agriculture from the Levant to Western Central...    The Spread of Agriculture to the Eastern Arc of the Fertile Crescent: Food...    Early History of Sesame Cultivation in the Near East and Beyond - D. Bedigian    Grain Legumes: Evidence of these Important Ancient Food Resources from... Part 3. Archaeobotanical Evidence for Agricultural Transitions    Identifying Pre-domestication Cultivation Using Multivariate Analysis -...    Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Lithic Agricultural...    History of Harvesting and Threshing Techniques for Cereals in the Prehistoric...    Problems in Correlating Pollen Diagrams of the Near East: A Preliminary...    Investigations of Botanical Remains from Nevali Çori PPNB, Turkey:...    Crop Water Availability from a Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site on the Euphrates,... Part 4. Domestication of Crop Plants    Use of Historical and Archaeological Information in Lentil Improvement...    What Can Molecular Markers Tell Us about the Process of Domestication in...    On the Origin and In Statu Nascendi Domestication of Rye and Barley: A...    Plant-Gathering Versus Plant Domestication: An Ethnobotanical Focus on...    Origins and Domestication of Mediterranean Olive Determined through RAPD... Part 5. Historical Aspects and Crop Evolution    Genetic Evidence on the Origin of Triticum aestivum L. - J. Dvorák,...    Introgression of Durum into Wild Emmer and the Agricultural Origin Question...    The Variation of Grain Characters in Diploid and Tetraploid Hulled Wheats...    Utilization of Ancient Tetraploid Wheat Species for Drought Tolerance in...    Archaeobotanical Evidence for Evolution of Cultivated Wheat and Barley...    Extinction Threat of Wild African Gossypium species in their Center of... Part 6. Conservation of Wild Progenitors    Current Geographical Distribution and Habitat of Wild Wheats and Barley...    In situ Conservation of Wild Relatives of Crop Plants in Relation to their...    Domestication of Cereal Crop Plants and In situ Conservation of their Genetic... Summary and Recommendations Jack R. Harlan (1917-1998) - Plant Explorer, Archaeobotanist, Geneticist... Index Back Cover