The Chickpea, Summer Cropping, and a New Model for Pulse Domestication in the Ancient Near East

The Chickpea, Summer Cropping, and a New Model for Pulse Domestication in the Ancient Near East

The widely accepted models describing the emergence of domesticated grain crops from their wild type ancestors are mostly based upon selection (conscious or unconscious) of major features related either to seed dispersal (nonbrittle ear, indehiscent pod) or free germination (nondormant seeds, soft s...

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Main Authors: Abbo, S., Shtienberg, D., Lichtenzveig, Judith, Lev-Yadun, S., Gopher, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: The University of Chicago Press 2003
Subjects:
Neolithic Revolution
summer cropping
crop evolution
chickpea
legume domestication
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8585

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