Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NICHE (Investigating the Ecology, Composition and Exploitability of Wild Cereal Habitats in Relation to Agricultural Origins in the Near East)

During the Earliest Neolithic in southwest Asia, between ca. 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, the first farming communities of the world developed in southwest Asia. Archaeobotanical research on this process strongly focused on the wild progenitors of the cereal founder crops...