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The Origins of Agriculture


Origins of agriculture - Britannica

The origins of agriculture, or the active production of useful plants or animals in ecosystems that have been created by people, ...

The Origins of Agriculture – History and Science of Cultivated Plants

It is believed that agriculture was invented by women. The women of the preagrarian societies collected wild fruits, berries, tubers, and roots and had ...

History of Agriculture - Food System Primer

Technological innovations like irrigation (circa 6000 BCE) and the plow (circa 3000 BCE) brought enormous gains in productivity, but when used irresponsibly ...

History of agriculture - Wikipedia

Wild grains were collected and eaten from at least 104,000 years ago. ... However, domestication did not occur until much later. The earliest evidence of small- ...

The Development of Agriculture - National Geographic Education

Agricultural communities developed approximately 10,000 years ago when humans began to domesticate plants and animals. By domesticating species, ...

Unearthing the origins of agriculture - PNAS

But starting about 11,700 years ago, people began to use wild plants in ways that changed the plants themselves, a process called domestication.

The History of Agriculture - CropCare

Agriculture has roots that date back thousands of years, and its development changed how people lived and paved the way for cities and civilizations to grow.

Origins of agriculture - Domestication, Neolithic, Fertile Crescent

Origins of agriculture - Domestication, Neolithic, Fertile Crescent: Agriculture has no single, simple origin. A wide variety of plants and ...

Agriculture - Wikipedia

Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East | Current Anthropology

Agriculture in the Near East arose in the context of broad-based systematic human efforts at modifying local environments and biotic communities.

The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East - jstor

The emerging picture of plant and animal domestication and agricultural origins in the Near East is dramatically different from that drawn 16 years ago in a ...

The origins of agriculture: Intentions and consequences

The idea that agriculture was an unintended consequence of human actions has a long history that can be traced back to Darwin, and this paper begins by ...

The Origins of Agriculture in Mesoamerica and the Human Niche

Agriculture differs from low- level food production in that agricultural activities require a substantial amount of time each day while foraging activities ...

Agricultural Sciences and the Origins of Farming

Agriculture is the science and art of soil and crop cultivation. Specialized topics in agriculture include plant breeding, genetics, soil science, irrigation ...

The origins of agriculture in the Americas - Smith - Wiley Online Library

The excavation of larger and more sedentary river valley settlements in eastern North America has yielded ample evidence of the cultivation of domesticated seed ...

The Origins and Spread of Agriculture | Rice - UCL

Rice cultivation began in at least three of them, the middle and lower Yangtze, the Ganges plains and west Africa.

Origins of World Agriculture - World History Encyclopedia

China and Asia were also early areas of plant domestication in the Old World. There is evidence that cultivation was practiced 8,000 to 10,000 ...

The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas - jstor

Farming. Utilization of domestic plants and/or animals for food as well as other resources. Agriculture. Farming and/or herding predominate the ac ...

Origins of agriculture | World History | Khan Academy - YouTube

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The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas : An Introduction to ...

Population pressure was thus introduced as a causal agent for the origins of agriculture: more people required more food. The best solution to the problem was ...