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We demonstrate that the initial spread of farming outside of the area of its first appearance in the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia, into Central Anatolia, involved adoption of cultivars by indigenous foragers and contemporary experimentation in animal herding of local species. This represents a rare clear-cut instance of forager adoption and sustained low-level food production. We have also demonstrated that farming uptake was not uniform, with some forager communities rejecting it despite proximity to early farming communities. We also show that adoption of small-scale cultivation could still have significant social consequences for the communities concerned. The evidence suggests forager adoption of cultivation and initiation of herding was not necessarily motivated by simple economic concerns of increasing levels of food production and security.
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/14/E3077
https://indo-european.eu/2018/03/agricultural-origins-on-the-anatolian-plateau-and-dispersal/
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/14/E3077
https://indo-european.eu/2018/03/agricultural-origins-on-the-anatolian-plateau-and-dispersal/