Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992.
Introduction / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson
Prehistoric plant domestication in East Asia / Gary W. Crawford
The origins of plant cultivation in the Near East / Naomi F. Miller
Indigenous African agriculture / Jack R. Harlan
The origins of crop agriculture in Europe / Robin W. Dennell
Prehistoric plant husbandry in eastern North America / Bruce D. Smith
Earliest plant cultivation in the desert borderlands of North America / Paul E. Minnis
The origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica and Central America / Emily McClung de Tapia
The origins of plant cultivation in South America / Deborah M. Pearsall
Some concluding remarks / C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson.
The origins of agriculture : an international perspective. ISBN 9780817353490. Published by University of Alabama Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.