Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia
dc.contributor.author | Arranz Otaegui, Amaia | |
dc.contributor.author | Roe, Joe | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-08T14:16:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-08T14:16:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 32 : 475-499 (2023) | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 0939-6314 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/67728 | |
dc.description.abstract | Zohary and Hopf coined the term ‘founder crops’ to refer to a specific group of eight plants, namely three cereals (einkorn, emmer and barley), four legumes (lentil, pea, bitter vetch and chickpea), and a fibre/oil crop (flax), that founded early Neolithic agriculture in southwest Asia. Zohary considered these taxa as the first cultivated and domesticated species, as well as those that agricultural communities exploited and eventually spread to Europe and other regions. As a result, these eight species soon become the hallmark of the Neolithic plant-based subsistence. However, the ‘founder crops’ concept was defined at the end of the 1980s, when the development of agriculture was considered a rapid event, and therefore, terms like domestication, agriculture and plant cultivation were used interchangeably in the literature. The aim of this paper is thus to revisit concept of the ‘Neolithic founder crops’. Through a critical review of the archaeobotanical evidence gathered in the last 40 years, we evaluate the relative contribution of the ‘eight founder crop’ species to the plant-based subsistence across different periods of the southwest Asian Neolithic. We conclude that multiple groups of ‘founder’ species could be defined depending on whether one seeks to represent the most exploited plants of the Neolithic period, the first cultivated and domesticated crops, or the species that agricultural communities cultivated and eventually spread to Europe. Improved understanding of Neolithic plant-based subsistence in general, and agriculture in particular, will be attained by moving beyond conventional narratives and exploring the evolutionary history of plants other than the original ‘founder’ species. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | Funding was provided by H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (840228) and Juan de la Cierva –Incorporación- Fellowship (IJC2019-039647-I). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Springer Nature | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/840228 | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/IJC2019-039647-I | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | founder crops | es_ES |
dc.subject | Neolithic | es_ES |
dc.subject | Southwest Asia | es_ES |
dc.subject | plant domestication | es_ES |
dc.subject | lost crops | es_ES |
dc.subject | agriculture | es_ES |
dc.title | Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-023-00917-1 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00334-023-00917-1 | |
dc.contributor.funder | European Commission | |
dc.departamentoes | Geografía, prehistoria y arqueología | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Geografia,historiaurrea eta arkeologia | es_ES |
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