TY - BOOK AU - Stalker,H.T. AU - Warburton,Marilyn AU - Harlan,Jack R. TI - Harlan's crops and man: people, plants and their domestication SN - 9780891186335 AV - SB71 .H3 2021eb U1 - 633 23 PY - 2021/// CY - [Place of publication not identified] PB - Wiley KW - Crops KW - History KW - Agriculture KW - Electronic books KW - fast N1 - Table of Contents Preface viii 1 Prologue: The Golden Age 1 Crop Evolution 2 The Hunter-Gatherer Stereotype 3 What Do Gatherers Eat? 11 Understanding Life Cycles of Plants 20 General Botanical Knowledge 23 Manipulation of Vegatation 25 Food Plants in Ritual and Ceremony 26 On Sharing the Bounty 27 Population Control and the Aged 29 Conclusions 30 References 31 2 Views on Agricultural Origins 37 Agriculture as Divine Gift 37 Domestication for Religious Reasons 43 Domestication by Crowding 45 Agriculture as Discovery 46 Agriculture by Stress 49 Agriculture as an Extension of Gathering 50 Domestication by Perception 53 A No-Model Model 56 Geography of Plant Domestication 59 An Ecological Approach 63 Conclusions 73 References 73 3 What Is a Crop? 79 Definitions 80 Intermediate States 81 A Short List of Cultivated Plants 86 Crops That Feed the World 106 References 107 4 What Is a Weed? 109 Definitions 110 Intermediate States 113 Crop–Weed Complexes 116 Some Weed Adaptations 120 Weeds and History 122 Conclusions 127 References 127 5 Classification of Cultivated Plants 131 Botanical Descriptions and Names 132 Problems of Formal Taxonomy 134 The Gene Pool System 136 Evolutionary Implications 143 Conclusions 145 References 145 6 The Dynamics of Domestication 147 Domestication of Seed Crops 147 Domestication of Vegetatively Reproduced Crops 163 Conclusions 167 References 167 7 Space, Time, and Variation 171 Kinds of Patterns of Variation 171 Noncentric Crops 175 Diffuse Origins 178 Microcenters 180 Landrace Populations 181 Implications for Plant Breeding 183 Conclusions 190 References 190 8 The Near East 195 Introduction 196 Archaeological Prelude 200 A Note About Dating Archaeological Sites 202 Archaeological Sequence of Village Sites 204 Spread of Agriculture Out of the Nuclear Area 210 Recorded History 211` Conclusions 212 References 213 9 Indigenous African Agriculture 216 Introduction 217 Archaeological Prelude 217 A Savanna Complex 223 Crop Competition and Distribution 227 Recorded History 228 Décrue Agriculture 230 Conclusions 232 References 233 10 The Far East 236 Archaeological Prelude 237 Recorded History 240 Far Eastern Crops 241 Hunter-Gatherers of Japan 257 Plant Domestication in India 258 Conclusions 259 References 259 11 The Americas 263 Archaeology 263 The Crops 269 Indigenous Americans as Biochemists 283 Conclusions 287 References 288 12 Epilogue: Who’s in Charge Here? 295 References 302 UR - https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780891186342 ER -