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Overlooked But Not Forgotten: India As A Center for Agricultural Domestication
Author(s) -
Fuller Dorian Q.,
Murphy Charlene
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
general anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1939-3466
pISSN - 1537-1727
DOI - 10.1111/gena.01001
Subject(s) - domestication , citation , history , library science , center (category theory) , archaeology , sociology , computer science , ecology , biology , chemistry , crystallography
hen the general public thinks ofthe origins of agriculture they of-ten think of V.G. Childe’s (1923)Neolithic Revolution, the Fertile Crescent,and the spread to the West of a few selectcereal crops and to the East, with separateorigins only in China (a story popularizedby writers such as Jared Diamond (1997) andIan Morris (2010). They do not often thinkof the subcontinent of India, but this needsto change. Like several other parts of theworld, recent and growing archaeologicalevidence combined with better botanicaldocumentation of wild crop ancestors, sug-gests that there were at least 19 primary cen-ters of crop domestication (Larson