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Science 12 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5780, pp. 1608 - 1610
DOI: 10.1126/science.1127235
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Perspectives

ANTHROPOLOGY:
Autonomous Cultivation Before Domestication

Ehud Weiss1,*, Mordechai E. Kislev2, Anat Hartmann1

Early Near Eastern crop cultivation was a trial-and-error process. Some crops continued until full domestication, while others were abandoned and later adopted independently by distant societies.

1E. Weiss and A. Hartmann are in the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology and Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel. 2M. E. Kislev is in the Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel. *E-mail: eweiss{at}mail.biu.ac.il

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