Volume
28, Number 2
Summer 1986
Special Issue: Prehistoric Pioneers--Archaeology and the History of Farming
Cover: Photo by M. M. Voigt. The first plants and animals domesticated in the Middle East are still basic to village economics. In the fields surrounding the village of Lidar in southern Turkey, wheat, barley, and lentils are grown. Sheep and goats graze on the hillsides during the day, but return each evening to the village for milking.
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Features Wild
Animals Ain't So Wild, Domesticating Them Not So Difficult Dietary
Reconstruction and Near Eastern Archaeology Bread
and Beer--The Early Use of Cereals in the Human Diet Cattle
and the Harappan Chiefdoms of the Indus Valley States,
Chiefdoms, and Tribes The
Antiquity of Dairying in Temperate Europe Dairying
in Irish Prehistory--The Evidence from a Ceremonial Center |
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