Plants and humans in the Near East and the Caucasus (Vols. 1 y 2)

The Near East, also known as the Middle East, is widely considered as the cradle of our Western civilization.Inside, the old area called a fertile growing, which extends in an arc from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and includes Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, was the cradle o...

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Main Authors: Rivera, Diego, Matilla Séiquer, Gonzalo, Obon, Concepcion, ALCARAZ, FRANCISCO
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description The Near East, also known as the Middle East, is widely considered as the cradle of our Western civilization.Inside, the old area called a fertile growing, which extends in an arc from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and includes Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, was the cradle of agriculture about 11,500 years ago. Therefore, it is a key zone for our understanding of complex relationships between plants and human beings. In fact, our knowledge of the origins of agriculture in this area has developed spectacularly in the last 15 to 20 years (Price and Bar - Yosef 2011; Zeder 2011) and without a doubt the future discoveries will further refine the panorama. The human use of wild species is the very basis of our civilization.Throughout the world, a large number of wild species were the main component of the nutritional regimes of our ancestors.The dependence on the search for food led to a largely nomadic lifestyle, largely dictated by the available plants and animals and where at certain times of the year. The gradual domestication and cultivation of small amounts of wild plants and, subsequently, the domestication and breeding of some wild animals allowed human communities to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and raided the way for demographic growth and village development, villages,towns and cities that increasingly dominate our lifestyle and all the social and cultural changes that this implies. These first attempts of humans of managing their wild plant resources have been described as "the initial step of a long and uninterrupted path that continues today with our Scientifically Reported Programmes of Crop Improvement’ (Brown et al., 2008).
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Plants and humans in the Near East and the Caucasus (Vols. 1 y 2)
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