Origins of Agriculture in Central Europe: Diffusion, DNA and the LBK

A recent study in Science magazine argues that the origins of agriculture in central Europe 7000 years ago were the result of the adoption of new techniques by the hunter-gatherers living there.

The Origins of Agriculture Rag

What does the model of diffusion proposed by Haak et al. do for the questions about origins of agriculture in central Europe?

A silly song about a very serious subject: the cultural history of the domestication of plants.

American archaeologist David Rindos was primarily interested in the origins of agriculture; his 1984 book called the Origins of Agriculture is still considered one of the most important contributions to that study.

American paleoethnobotanist Mary Eubanks is located in the biology department at Duke University, where she has conducted some of the most useful studies of corn biology and the origins of agriculture in the Americas.

The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (abbreviated PPN) is the name given to the people who domesticated the earliest plants and lived in farming communities in the Levant and Near East.

An extensive bibliography of agriculture in archaeology, divided into three parts. Part 1: Mary J. Adair through Elisabeth Hildebrand