Open for Competition: Domesticates, Parasitic Domesticoids and the Agricultural Niche
This paper explores the relationship of weeds and crop parasites within the domestication of crop-plants within the Old World, drawing predominately on China and the Near East. This relationship is explored using the concept of niche construction in which the act of cultivation sets about chains of...
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doaj-ca39b613150b40e48a00bc53f6eec9c72021-02-02T00:04:17ZengUCL PressArchaeology International1463-17252048-41942017-12-012011012110.5334/ai.359349Open for Competition: Domesticates, Parasitic Domesticoids and the Agricultural NicheDorian Q. Fuller0Chris J. Stevens1University College LondonUniversity College LondonThis paper explores the relationship of weeds and crop parasites within the domestication of crop-plants within the Old World, drawing predominately on China and the Near East. This relationship is explored using the concept of niche construction in which the act of cultivation sets about chains of feedback in which the ecological worlds of plants and humans became increasingly intertwined resulting in ever increasing spheres of interdependence. Into this domestication entanglement a number of peripheral organisms (termed parasitic domesticoids) were drawn, from the weeds which came to inhabit and arable fields, to the insect pests and rodents that came to settle with the grain stores of the first farmers. The evolution and spread of these organsisms is then outlined against that of the crop itself.https://www.ai-journal.com/articles/359Domestication, parasites, weeds, ecology, entanglements, niche construction |
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Open for Competition: Domesticates, Parasitic Domesticoids and the Agricultural Niche |
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Open for Competition: Domesticates, Parasitic Domesticoids and the Agricultural Niche |
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This paper explores the relationship of weeds and crop parasites within the domestication of crop-plants within the Old World, drawing predominately on China and the Near East. This relationship is explored using the concept of niche construction in which the act of cultivation sets about chains of feedback in which the ecological worlds of plants and humans became increasingly intertwined resulting in ever increasing spheres of interdependence. Into this domestication entanglement a number of peripheral organisms (termed parasitic domesticoids) were drawn, from the weeds which came to inhabit and arable fields, to the insect pests and rodents that came to settle with the grain stores of the first farmers. The evolution and spread of these organsisms is then outlined against that of the crop itself. |
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Domestication, parasites, weeds, ecology, entanglements, niche construction |
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