A Response to "Arguments Against the Core Area Hypothesis" for Plant Domestication. (October 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: G, A; L -, S; A, S
• Is Part Of: Tel Aviv. Volume 40:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 187
• Page End: 196
• Publication Date: 2013-10
• Subjects: Neolithic, -- plant domestication, -- core area; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Israel -- Periodicals; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East -- Periodicals; Israel -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Middle East -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622 -- Periodicals; 933
• DOI: 10.1179/033443513X13753505864377
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0334-4355

Abstract

Abstract : The paper relates to several issues concerning geographical and chronological aspects of the 'core area' model for plant domestication in the Levant (Lev- Yadun et al . 2000), as presented in Fuller et al . (2011). The paper stresses that the core area as depicted by Fuller et al . does not correspond to the original core area map and list of Neolithic sites published by the authors (Lev-Yadun et al . 2000). It also discusses the alternative model suggested by Fuller et al ., namely the alleged existence of autonomous, independent domestication centres in the Levant, a suggestion that does not conform to the available archaeobotanical, as well as genetic and archaeological data. A primarily technical section on chronology considers the procedures used by Fuller and his associates concerning 14 C dating. Archaeobotanical data inconsistencies are also noted.