Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Founders (Assessing the economic role of the founder crops prior to the emergence of agriculture)

Between 10.7 and 10.2 ka cal. BP a process culminated in southwest Asia that marked the path of human history: the domestication of plants. A group of eight species including einkorn, emmer, barley, lentil, pea, chickpea, bitter vetch and flax become the “founder crops” of...