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The Cradle of Agriculture
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It has long been debated exactly where and when crops were first domesticated and farming began--events that directly contributed to the emergence of Western civilization. In their Perspective, Lev-Yadun and colleagues discuss botanical, genetic and archeological evidence suggesting that the cradle of agriculture lay within a small region of the Fertile Crescent (in what is now southeastern Turkey/ northern Syria) and began in the 7th millennium B.C.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lev-Yadun, S., Gopher, A., & Abbo, S.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2000-06-02
- Volume
- 288
- Issue
- 5471
- Pages
- 1602-1603
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2096983318
- Cited by
- 605
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 13.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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