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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 Others? - J.G. Hawkes

Vavilov's Theories of Crop Domestication in the Ancient Mediterranean Area - A.A. Filatenko, A. Diederichsen and K. Hammer

Archaeobotanical Evidence for the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southwest Asia - G. Willcox

Syrian Origins of Safflower Production: New Discoveries in the Agrarian Prehistory of the Habur Basin - J. McCorriston

Part 2. Near Eastern Crop Diversity and its Global Migration

Diversity of Major Cultivated Plants Domesticated in the Near East - A.B. Damania

The Spread of Neolithic Agriculture from the Levant to Western Central Asia - D.R. Harris

The Spread of Agriculture to the Eastern Arc of the Fertile Crescent: Food for the Herders - F. Hole

Early History of Sesame Cultivation in the Near East and Beyond - D. Bedigian

Grain Legumes: Evidence of these Important Ancient Food Resources from Early Pre-agrarian and Agrarian Sites in Southwest Asia - A. Butler

Part 3. Archaeobotanical Evidence for Agricultural Transitions

Identifying Pre-domestication Cultivation Using Multivariate Analysis - S. Colledge

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Lithic Agricultural Tools on the Middle Euphrates: The Sites of Tell Mureybit and Tell Halula - J.J. Ibáñez, J.E. González, A. Palomo and A. Ferrer

History of Harvesting and Threshing Techniques for Cereals in the Prehistoric Near East - P.C. Anderson

Problems in Correlating Pollen Diagrams of the Near East: A Preliminary Report - R.T.J. Cappers, S. Bottema and H. Woldring

Investigations of Botanical Remains from Nevali Çori PPNB, Turkey: A Short Interim Report - R. Pasternak

Crop Water Availability from a Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site on the Euphrates, Determined by Carbon Isotope Discrimination of Seeds - J.L. Araus, A. Febrero, M. Catalá, M. Molist, I. Romagosa and J. Voltas

Part 4. Domestication of Crop Plants

Use of Historical and Archaeological Information in Lentil Improvement Today - W. Erskine

What Can Molecular Markers Tell Us about the Process of Domestication in Common Bean? - Paul Gepts

On the Origin and In Statu Nascendi Domestication of Rye and Barley: A Review - V. Jaaska

Plant-Gathering Versus Plant Domestication: An Ethnobotanical Focus on Leafy Plants - F. Ertug

Origins and Domestication of Mediterranean Olive Determined through RAPD Marker Analyses - G. Besnard, A. Moukhli, H. Sommerlatte, H. Hosseinpour, M. Tersac, P. Villemur, F. Dosba and A. Bervillé

Part 5. Historical Aspects and Crop Evolution

Genetic Evidence on the Origin of Triticum aestivum L. - J. Dvorák, M.-C. Luo and Z.-L. Yang

Introgression of Durum into Wild Emmer and the Agricultural Origin Question - M.A. Blumler

The Variation of Grain Characters in Diploid and Tetraploid Hulled Wheats and its Relevance for the Archaeological Record - K. Hammer and C.-E. Specht

Utilization of Ancient Tetraploid Wheat Species for Drought Tolerance in Durum Wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) - A. Al Hakimi and P. Monneveux

Archaeobotanical Evidence for Evolution of Cultivated Wheat and Barley in Armenia - P.A. Gandilian

Extinction Threat of Wild African Gossypium species in their Center of Diversity - V. Holubec

Part 6. Conservation of Wild Progenitors

Current Geographical Distribution and Habitat of Wild Wheats and Barley - J. Valkoun, J. Giles Waines and J. Konopka

In situ Conservation of Wild Relatives of Crop Plants in Relation to their History - J. Giles Waines

Domestication of Cereal Crop Plants and In situ Conservation of their Genetic Resources in the Fertile Crescent - A.B. Damania

Summary and Recommendations

Jack R. Harlan (1917-1998) - Plant Explorer, Archaeobotanist, Geneticist and Plant Breeder - O. Qualset

Index

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