DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.032
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84974717550
论文题名: Narrowing the harvest: Increasing sickle investment and the rise of domesticated cereal agriculture in the Fertile Crescent
作者: Maeda O. ; Lucas L. ; Silva F. ; Tanno K.-I. ; Fuller D.Q.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2016
卷: 145 起始页码: 226
结束页码: 237
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Archaeobotany
; Conformist bias
; Early Holocene
; Neolithic
; Paleoethnobotany
; Sickle blade
; Southwest Asia
Scopus关键词: Crops
; Digital storage
; Economics
; Archaeobotany
; Conformist bias
; Early Holocene
; Neolithic
; Paleoethnobotany
; Sickle blade
; Southwest Asia
; Agriculture
; agricultural practice
; archaeology
; barley
; domestication
; equipment
; Neolithic
; social history
; wheat
; Asia
; Cyprus
; Levant
; Mediterranean Region
; Hordeum
; Hordeum vulgare
; Triticum monococcum
; Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccum
英文摘要: For the first time we integrate quantitative data on lithic sickles and archaeobotanical evidence for domestication and the evolution of plant economies from sites dated to the terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene (ca. 12000-5000 cal. BCE) from throughout the Fertile Crescent region of Southwest Asia. We find a strong correlation in some regions, throughout the Levant, for increasing investment in sickles that tracks the evidence for increasing reliance on cereal crops, while evidence for morphological domestication in wheats (Triticum monococcum and Triticum dicoccum) and barley (Hordeum vulgare) was delayed in comparison to sickle use. These data indicate that while the co-increase of sickle blades and cereal crops support the protracted development of agricultural practice, sickles did not drive the initial stages of the domestication process but rather were a cultural adaptation to increasing reliance on cereals that were still undergoing selection for morphological change. For other regions, such as the Eastern Fertile Crescent and Cyprus such correlations are weaker or non-existent suggesting diverse cultural trajectories to cereal domestication. We conclude that sickles were an exaptation transferred to cereal harvesting and important in signalling a new cultural identity of "farmers". Furthermore, the protracted process of technological and agricultural evolution calls into question hypotheses that the transition to agriculture was caused by any particular climatic event. © 2016 The Authors. 资助项目: This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 25370899 to OM and carried out while he was a visiting scholar at UCL. Research by LL and DF was supported by a European Research Council grant (#323842) on ?Comparative Pathways to Agriculture? to DF. FS was supported by a grant from UK NERC (NE/K003402/1) to DF. We thank peer reviewers for their useful suggestions.
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资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59548
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作者单位: Institute for Comparative Research in Human and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan
Recommended Citation:
Maeda O.,Lucas L.,Silva F.,et al. Narrowing the harvest: Increasing sickle investment and the rise of domesticated cereal agriculture in the Fertile Crescent[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,145