AN enduring myth has it that all agriculture began in one place, the fertile crescent of the Middle East. As David Bruce shows in The Emergence of Agriculture (Scientific American Library, pp 256, £19.95), this is false: evidence shows that agriculture arose in many places and many ways. It’s history well told.
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