Agriculture first emerged in West Asia during the Neolithic period, between 10,000 and 8,000 BCE, when human communities domesticated several species of plants (including cereals and legumes) and animals (including sheep, goat, and cattle).[1][2][3]
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- ^ Zeder, Melinda A. (2011). "The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East". Current Anthropology. 52 (S4): S221–S235. doi:10.1086/659307. ISSN 0011-3204.
- ^ Asouti, Eleni; Fuller, Dorian Q (June 2013). "A Contextual Approach to the Emergence of Agriculture in Southwest Asia: Reconstructing Early Neolithic Plant-Food Production". Current Anthropology. 54 (3): 299–345. doi:10.1086/670679. ISSN 0011-3204.
- ^ Weiss, Ehud; Zohary, Daniel (2011). "The Neolithic Southwest Asian Founder Crops: Their Biology and Archaeobotany". Current Anthropology. 52 (S4): S237–S254. doi:10.1086/658367. ISSN 0011-3204.