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Science 2 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5471, pp. 1602 - 1603
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5471.1602
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Perspectives

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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Enhanced: The Cradle of Agriculture

Simcha Lev-Yadun, Avi Gopher, Shahal Abbo

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.

S. Lev-Yadun is in the Department of Agronomy and Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, 50250 Bet Dagan, Israel. E-mail: vcfield{at}agri.gov.il. A Gopher is at the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel. E-mail: agopher{at}post.tau.ac.il S. Abbo is in the Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 76100 Rehovot, Israel. E-mail: abbo{at}agri.huji.ac.il

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