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Domestication of plants in the old world : the origin and spread of cultivated plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile Valley / Daniel Zohary and Maria Hopf.
Holman Biotech Commons GN799.A4 Z64 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zohary, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--history.
- Plants.
- Plants, Cultivated--history.
- Agriculture, Prehistoric.
- Plants, Cultivated--History.
- Plants, Cultivated.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Agriculture--history.
- Plants.
- Local Subjects:
- Plants, Cultivated--history.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- In this definitive volume, the authors review the origin and subsequent spread of the plants on which Old World food production was founded. Their account is based on the detailed consideration of the plant remains found at archaeological sites and accumulated knowledge about the present-day wild relatives of cultivated plants.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 223-242.
- ISBN:
- 0198541988 :
- OCLC:
- 15082479
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