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Crops and man
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The article was published on 1975-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1120 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Domestication & Germplasm.read more
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A lepidopterous cocoon from Thera and evidence for silk in the Aegean Bronze Age
TL;DR: A cocoon from Santorini offers new evidence for the origin of fine garments depicted in the Minoan frescoes as discussed by the authors, where the fine garments were made of fine cotton (cotton from Egypt) or the yet finer fabric of silk.
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Shattering habit and dormancy of spikelets in a cultivated form of Echinochloa oryzicola recently found in China.
T. Hirosue,Y. Yamasue,T. Yabuno +2 more
TL;DR: The cultivated form of E. oryzicola examined in the present study was characterized by large spikelets with non-shattering habit and no innate dormancy.
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The palaeo-ecology of the African continent: the physical environment of Africa from earliest geological to Later Stone Age times
Karl W. Butzer,H. B. S. Cooke +1 more
TL;DR: The Karroo Supergroup spans the period from later Carboniferous to early Jurassic, ignoring the usual break between the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras as discussed by the authors, which is the boundary between the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age.
Food and the early history of cultivation
I. S. Farrington,James Urry +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of food processing, cooking and the exchange of foodstuffs in the development of cultivation and the diffusion of plants and animals is examined, and ideas are examined against the existing evidence of cultivation from archaeological sites in S.W. Asia, S.E. Asia and Middle and South America.
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Artisanal fishers’ ethnobotany: from plant diversity use to agrobiodiversity management
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of different research projects and includes the North and the South regions of Sao Paulo state coast, and characterize the diversity of extracted and cultivated species by traditional fishers at Southeastern region of Brazilian Atlantic forest.