The Early history of agriculture : a joint symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy /
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Oxford [England] :
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
1977.
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Table of Contents:
- Domestication and social evolution / Grahame Clark
- Plant and animal distribution in relation to domestication / J.R. Harlan
- On macroscopic traces of food plants in southwestern Asia (with some reference to pollen data) / W. van Zeist
- The husbandry of food production / A. Steensberg
- Cytogenetics and evolutionary change under domestication / Barbara Pickersgill and C.B. Heiser Jr. Discussion / D.R. Harris
- Physiological adaptation to performance as crop plants / L.T. Evans
- Early animal husbandry / M.R. Jarman. Discussion / Grahame Clark [and others]
- The evolution of plants and animals under domestication : the contribution of studies at the molecular level / E.M. Jope. Discussion / C.M. Ann Baker and C. Manwell [and others]
- The beginning and growth of agriculture in Mexico / G.H.S. Bushnell
- The early history of American agriculture : recent research and current controversy / Norman Hammond
- India: local and introduced crops / Joseph Hutchinson. Discussion / F.R. Allchin, Vishnu-Mittre
- The rice cultures / Te-Tzu Chang. Discussion / A.H. Bunting
- The history of European agriculture
- the uplands / E.S. Higgs
- Agriculture in prehistoric Europe
- the lowlands / Heather N. Jarman and J.L. Bay-Petersen. Discussion / Grahame Clark
- The olive in the Mediterranean : its culture and use / J. Boardman. Discussion / Dame Kathleen M. Kenyon, E.J. Moynahan, J.D. Evans
- Climate, soil and man / G.W. Dimbleby
- Concluding remarks
- the evolution of crops and of agriculture / R. Riley.
