History of Western Civilization

Origins of Agriculture

Table of Contents

1 From Foraging to Farming  2 Yali's Question   3 Domestication Questions to consider 4 Plant and animal domestication 5 Agricultural Hearths   6 Neolithic a definition 7 The Neolithic: Emergence of Sedentary plant tending

8 Iraqi wetlands wetland origins 9 Domestication of Animals   10 Animal diseases 11 New Living Arrangements   12 Environmental Effects   13  Learning to Use What is Available 14 Questions to consider about the emergence of agriculture