Open AccessThe Melon Short paleobotanical and historical-linguistic review
Author(s) -
Guram Chikovani
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
samxret' kavkasia ark'eologiuri kontek'sti
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2667-9353
DOI - 10.52147/2667-9353/2021-1-69-83
Subject(s) - domestication , agriculture , human settlement , melon , natural (archaeology) , vegetation (pathology) , function (biology) , geography , earth (classical element) , biology , ecology , archaeology , evolutionary biology , mathematics , medicine , pathology , horticulture , mathematical physics
Vegetation occupies a special place on the Earth. It was easily recognized by our remote ancestors who worshipped plants and animals together with the visible world. From the biblical viewpoint about the origin of the world and living organs and resulting from further scientific conceptions, origin and evolution of plants and their special function have always been given great importance. Plants are an unconditional source of life on earth. With their development, early humans changed their ideas about and relationship with the changing environment. After the formation of convenient natural conditions, in different regions of the earth humans started developing a new form of production – land farming and cattle breeding and began creating new firm settlements. Consequently, there emerged new concepts –cultivated plants and domesticated animals - in economic activity. Improved species of plants and animals were created by means of human interference, which is why their majority have preserved only the gene and some characteristics of their wild ancestors. One of such cultivated agricultural plants is the melon with its very interesting history of evolution.