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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:Lecture 2 in a four-part series — Between the Neolithic 
 origins of agriculture and the establishment of hierarchical\, urban s
 ocieties\, key agricultural transformations took place. These included
  both the expanded production of staple grains\, underpinned by innova
 tions in agriculture\, and the development of additional domesticated 
 crops\, especially perennial trees and shrubs. Innovations varied acro
 ss Old World regions\, but included the deployment of animal labour in
  tillage (in West Asia)\, control of water (in Yangtze China)\, new cr
 op combinations and rotations that improved maintenance of soil fertil
 ity (in North China)\, but also interdependent specialization in pasto
 ral versus crop production (in parts of Africa). Post-Neolithic agricu
 ltural innovation also included the domestication of perennial tree fr
 uits and vines\, from olives\, grapes and dates in the West\, to peach
 es and jujube in the East\, to cotton\, mango\, and citron in India. T
 hese new perennial crops required a new time perspective\, investment 
 for yields 5\, 10\, or 20 years in the future\, and with nothing like 
 the caloric return of grains. This only became possible through the de
 velopment of secure\, longer-term land tenure\, and made sense in term
 s of a logic of production for trade\, as agricultural produce became 
 part of the emerging commodification that was early cities.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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