Agricultural origins on the Anatolian plateau

Agricultural origins: the evidence of modern and ancient DNA

The appearance of agriculture is one of the most striking features of Holocene human history, a feature that has long been studied in an interdisciplinary fashion, bringing archaeology together with plant and animal genetics. This paper reviews new developments in that study, consequent upon recent advances in DNA science. Among these advances is the possibility of complementing modern DNA data...

Rethinking the Origins of Agriculture Human Behavioral Ecology, Phenotypic (Developmental) Plasticity, and Agricultural Origins

The fields of human behavioral ecology (HBE) and evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) both stand to make significant contributions to our understanding of agricultural origins. These two approaches share a concern with phenotypic plasticity and its evolutionary significance. HBE considers the adaptive plasticity of the human phenotype in response to resource distribution in time and sp...

Loss of soil and PM10 from agricultural fields associated with high winds on the Columbia Plateau

Winter wheat–summer fallow is the conventional cropping system employed on >1·5 million ha within the Columbia Plateau of eastern Washington and northern Oregon. Wind erosion contributes to poor air quality in the region, yet little is known concerning the magnitude of soil and PM10 (particulate matter of ≤10 μm in aerodynamic diameter) loss from agricultural lands. Therefore, loss of soil and ...

Comment: Rethinking the Origins of Agriculture A Conversation on Agricultural Origins Talking Past Each Other in a Crowded Room

The Position of Anatolian

The Position of Anatolian 6.1 History of the Question 6.1.1 Discovery and Recognition Hrozný (1917) showed that the chief administrative language of the Hittite Empire, attested in cuneiform documents from Hattusha in central Turkey dating from the 16th-13th centuries BCE, was Indo-European. Through the work of a number of scholars it was known by the 1930s that Hittite was not alone in ancient...