Origins of Agriculture

Africa agricultural origins Anthropology archaeological Ayacucho barley beans bones bottle gourd Callejón de Huaylas camelids Canyon central cereals Chinese climatic coast complex cultigens cultivated cultural dates diffusion distribution domestic animals earliest early East eastern ecological economic Edited environment environmental evidence evolution excavated exploitation factors Figure Flannery forest gathering grain grasses grinding slabs groups handstones Harlan harvesting highlands Hoabinhian human hunter-gatherers hunting important increase India indicate Lagenaria late Lathrap loess MacNeish maize manioc Mesoamerica metate Mexico millet mountain Natufian Neolithic North northern China occurred origins of agriculture pattern period Peru pigs plateau Pleistocene pollen population pottery prehistoric present probably radiocarbon radiocarbon dates region remains rice River root crops sedentism seeds sequence settlement sheep South America southeastern Asia southern Spirit Cave stone subsistence suggest Tehuacán teosinte tion tropical ungulates University Valley vegetation village western wheat Yang-shao Zone