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Does the proportion of shattering vs. non-shattering cereal remains in archeobotanical assemblages reflect Near Eastern Neolithic arable fields?

Abbo, Shahal ; Peleg, Zvi ; Lev-Yadun, Simcha ; Gopher, Avi

Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 2021-01, Vol.284, p.104339, Article 104339 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Elsevier B.V

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  • Título:
    Does the proportion of shattering vs. non-shattering cereal remains in archeobotanical assemblages reflect Near Eastern Neolithic arable fields?
  • Autor: Abbo, Shahal ; Peleg, Zvi ; Lev-Yadun, Simcha ; Gopher, Avi
  • Assuntos: Brittle rachis spike ; Domestication models ; Pre-domestication cultivation ; Protracted domestication
  • É parte de: Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 2021-01, Vol.284, p.104339, Article 104339
  • Descrição: A protracted domestication time-frame for cereals in the Near East is widely endorsed by the plant domestication research community. This occurs in tandem with the pre-domestication cultivation concept, which rests on the assumption that human husbandry operations (namely cultivation) exerted selection pressures in favor of domesticated phenotypes (e.g., non-shattering spikes) at the expense of the wild type (WT) shattering phenotype. The protracted domestication model rests on a long series of assumptions of which we address only two: (1) that the archeobotanical assemblages found in Neolithic occupation sites are representative of the managed plant populations from the cultivated fields; (2) that WT (shattering, brittle spikes) and domesticated (non-shattering, non-brittle spikes) stocks were grown for millennia as admixed populations across the Near East before the domesticated (non-shattering) morphotype slowly came to dominate the managed cereal populations. Scrutinizing these assumptions, and their derivatives, we suggest that the proportion of wild vs. domesticated cereal remains in archeobotanical assemblages cannot possibly represent the presumed cultivated plant populations. Moreover, agronomic considerations expose severe methodological and theoretical drawbacks in the protracted domestication reconstruction vis-à-vis the proportions of shattering vs. non-shattering spikelets in archeobotanical assemblages. •A protracted cereal domestication model is endorsed by most researchers.•Assuming that Neolithic archeobotanical assemblages reflect cultivated fields; and that wild and domesticated stocks were grown admixed for millennia are key assumptions of the protracted model.•Time line changes in ratios of shattering/non-shattering spikelets are presented to support protracted domestication.•Agronomic considerations expose severe theoretical and methodological drawbacks in the protracted domestication reconstruction.•Proportions of shattering/non-shattering spikes in archeobotanical assemblages cannot support a protracted model.
  • Editor: Elsevier B.V
  • Idioma: Inglês
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