Research on agricultural origins in southwest Asia revealed a protracted process of developing plant management systems in the early Holocene that eventually led to the selection of domestication traits among a suite of seed crops. While the temporal and geographic spread of these developments is relatively clear, the specific sets of management practices and related (agro-)ecological conditions that characterised early plant...

Recent excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of Sharara (ca. 9250 cal bc ) in southern Jordan have yielded a rich assemblage of charred macrobotanical remains. The bulk of this assemblage was recovered from a single structure at the settlement that was destroyed by fire and which appears to have functioned as an area for processing and possibly also for storing plant foods. Among the charred plant remains recovered f...