ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fertile Crescent, Selective Breeding, Vicia
17 Oct 2016
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Extends today from israel and jordan in the south, up into turkey, syria, and lebanon in the north, and east into northern iraq and western iran. It is an area of mediterranean climate characterized by dry summers and winter rains with enough precipitation to support vegetation ranging from woodlands to open park woodland. South and east of the fertile crescent, the open park woodlands give way to steppes and true deserts. Archaeological record clearly shows that the shift to an agricultural way of life in the. The transition to agriculture can be traced through a number of stages. Of major importance is the shift from foraging for food, to a dependence on domesticated plants and animals. Domestication: human manipulation through artificial selection, either intentionally or unintentionally, generally resulting in genetic changes in a species that prove beneficial to humans. Earliest evidence of plant domestication is seen in figs from the pre-pottery a. Farming developed during the pre-pottery neolithic b period.
