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translation in the Loeb Classical Library edition [Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1961]); Albert Ammerman and L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, The
Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), analyzing the spread of food
production from the Fertile Crescent westward across Europe; Graeme
Barker, Prehistoric Farming in Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1985), and Alasdair Whittle, Neolithic Europe: A Survey (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1985), for Europe; Donald Henry,
From Foraging to Agriculture: The Levant at the End of the Ice Age (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), for the lands bordering
the eastern shore of the Mediterranean; and D. E. Yen, "Domestication:
Lessons from New Guinea," pp. 558-69 in Andrew Pawley, ed., Man and
a Half (Auckland: Polynesian Society, 1991), for New Guinea. Edward
Schafer, The Golden Peaches of Samarkand (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1963), describes the animals, plants, and other things
imported into China during the T'ang dynasty.
The following are accounts of plant domestication and crops in specific
parts of the world. For Europe and the Fertile Crescent: Willem van Zeist
et al., eds., Progress in Old "World Palaeoethnobotany (Rotterdam: Balkema,
1991), and Jane Renfrew, Paleoethnobotany (London: Methuen,
1973). For the Harappan civilization of the Indus Valley, and for the
Indian subcontinent in general: Steven Weber, Plants and Harappan Subsistence
(New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1991). For New
World crops: Charles Heiser, Jr., "New perspectives on the origin and evolution
of New World domesticated plants: Summary," Economic Botany
44(3 suppl.):l 11-16 (1990), and the same author's "Origins of some cultivated
New World plants," Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics
10:309-26 (1979). For a Mexican site that may document the transition
from hunting-gathering to early agriculture in Mesoamerica: Kent Flannery,
ed., Guild Naquitz (New York: Academic Press, 1986). For an
account of crops grown in the Andes during Inca times, and their potential
uses today: National Research Council, Lost Crops of the Incas (Washington,
D.C.: National Academy Press, 1989). For plant domestication in the
eastern and / or southwestern United States: Bruce Smith "Origins of agriculture
in eastern North America," Science 246:1566-71 (1989); William
Keegan, ed., Emergent Horticultural Economies of the Eastern Woodlands
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1987); Richard Ford, ed., Prehistoric
Food Production in North America (Ann Arbor: University of