Between domestication and civilization: the role of agriculture and arboriculture in the emergence of the first urban societies

被引:111
作者
Fuller, Dorian Q. [1 ,3 ]
Stevens, Chris J. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ London, Inst Archaeol, 31-34 Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PY, England
[2] Peking Univ, Sch Archaeol & Museol, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[3] Northwest Univ, Sch Archaeol & Museol, Xian 710069, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
基金
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
Arboriculture; Near East; Ficus; Olea; Phoenix; Vitis; China; Ziziphus; Amygdalus; Armeniaca; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; VITIS-VINIFERA; FRUIT; ORIGIN; WINE; SELECTION; PLANTS; CHINA; SIZE; EXPLOITATION;
D O I
10.1007/s00334-019-00727-4
中图分类号
Q94 [植物学];
学科分类号
071001 ;
摘要
The transition to urbanism has long focused on annual staple crops (cereals and legumes), perhaps at the expense of understanding other changes within agricultural practices that occurred between the end of the initial domestication period and urbanisation. This paper examines the domestication and role of fruit tree crops within urbanisation in both Western Asia and China, using a combination of evidence for morphological change and a database that documents both the earliest occurrence of tree fruit crops and their spread beyond their wild range. In Western Asia the domestication of perennial fruit crops likely occurs between 6500bc and 3500bc, although it accompanies a shift in location from that of the earliest domestications within the Fertile Crescent to Mesopotamia, where the earliest urban societies arose. For China, fruit-tree domestication dates between ca 4000 and 2500bc, commencing after millet domestication and rice domestication in Northern and Southern China, respectively, but within the period that led up to the urban societies that characterised the Longshan period in the Yellow River basin and the Liangzhu Culture in the Lower Yangtze. These results place the domestication of major fruit trees between the end of the domestication of staple annual crops and the rise of urbanism. On this basis it is argued that arboriculture played a fundamental role within the re-organisation of existing land use, shifting the emphasis from short-term returns of cereal crops into longer term investment in the developing agricultural landscape in both Western and East Asia. In this respect perennial tree crops can be placed alongside craft specialisation, such as metallurgy and textiles, in the formation of urban centres and the shaping the organisational administration that accompanied the rise of urbanism.
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