Domestication of Plants in the Old World. The origin and spread of domesticated plants on Southwest Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean Basin 4th ed.

Reviews and summarises the information on the origins and domestication of cultivated plants in the Old World, and subsequently the spread of cultivation from southwest Asia into Asia, Europe, and North Africa, This new edition revises and updates previous data and incorporates the most recent findings from molecular biology about the genetic relations between domesticated plants and their wild ancestors, and incorporates extensive new archaeological data about the spread of agriculture within the region. Now available in paperback for the first time.