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SUMMARY:Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Feeding Civilizations: A Comparative Long-Term Consideration of Agricultural and Culinary Traditions across the Old World
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, the first in a four-part lecture series\, w
 ill reconsider the origins of agriculture based on recent empirical ev
 idence that tells us both how grain crops were domesticated and how sl
 owly this process unfolded\, in West Asia\, East Asia\, parts of Afric
 a\, and India. Archaeobotany is providing a growing evidence base for 
 the ways in which plants became adapted as crops through morphological
  changes\, which were in turn tied to shifts in human practices. The c
 o-evolution was slow\, however\, and it will be argued that the more r
 evolutionary shift towards agricultural economies was substantially la
 ter (a few millennia) than the start of domestication itself. Agricult
 ural economies can be defined as those systems in which wild foraging 
 came to make a much reduced or even marginal caloric contribution to d
 iet\, and efforts at food production began to take place at a landscap
 e scale.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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