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Douglas Price and Ofer Bar-Yosef The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas: An Introduction to Supplement 4 S163 Ofer Bar-Yosef Climatic Fluctuations and Early Farming in West and East Asia S175 A. Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen Neolithization Processes in the Levant: The Outer Envelope S195 Anna Belfer-Cohen and A. Nigel Goring-Morris Becoming Farmers: The Inside Story S209 Melinda A. Zeder The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East S221 Ehud Weiss and Daniel Zohary The Neolithic Southwest Asian Founder Crops: Their Biology and Archaeobotany S237 Jean-Denis Vigne, Isabelle Carre`re, Franc¸ois Briois, and Jean Guilaine The Early Process of Mammal Domestication in the Near East: New Evidence from the Pre-Neolithic and Pre- Pottery Neolithic in Cyprus S255 David Joel Cohen The Beginnings of Agriculture in China: A Multiregional View S273 Zhijun Zhao New Archaeobotanic Data for the Study of the Origins of Agriculture in China S295 Gyoung-Ah Lee The Transition from Foraging to Farming in Prehistoric Korea S307 Gary W. Crawford Advances in Understanding Early Agriculture in Japan S331 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA Dorian Q Fuller Finding Plant Domestication in the Indian Subcontinent S347 Peter Bellwood Holocene Population History in the Pacific Region as a Model for Worldwide Food Producer Dispersals S363 Tim Denham Early Agriculture and Plant Domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia S379 Fiona Marshall and Lior Weissbrod Domestication Processes and Morphological Change: Through the Lens of the Donkey and African Pastoralism S397 Mehmet O¨ zdog˘an Archaeological Evidence on the Westward Expansion of Farming Communities from Eastern Anatolia to the Aegean and the Balkans S415 Peter Rowley-Conwy Westward Ho! The Spread of Agriculturalism from Central Europe to the Atlantic S431 Dolores R. Piperno The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics: Patterns, Process, and New Developments S453 Bruce D. Smith The Cultural Context of Plant Domestication in Eastern North America S471 Greger Larson Genetics and Domestication: Important Questions for New Answers S485 Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel The Agricultural Demographic Transition During and After the Agriculture Inventions S497 Erratum S511 Current Anthropology Volume 52, Supplement 4, October 2011 S161 The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 4 by Leslie C. Aiello The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas resulted from terest in the origins of agriculture and domestication. One of a Wenner-Gren-sponsored symposium held at the Hacienda the earliest meetings organized by the Foundation in July 1960 Temozon, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, March 6–13, 2009 (fig. led to the seminal publication Courses toward Urban Life: 1). The symposium was organized by T. Douglas Price (Uni- Archaeological Considerations of Some Cultural Alternates versity of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Aber- (Braidwood and Willey 1962). Other influential meetings in- deen) and Ofer Bar-Yosef (Harvard University). cluded the Origins of African Plant Domestication (Harlan, De The major aim of the symposium was to better understand Wet, and Stemler 1972) and Where the Wild Things Are Now the origins of agriculture in light of new fieldwork, new sites, (Mullin and Cassidy 2007), which invited anthropologists new analytical techniques, and more radiocarbon dates. The from all subfields to rethink the concept of domestication in global nature of agricultural origins was a key theme, and a anthropology. Information on these meetings and others can major focus of the discussions was on East Asia as well as be found on our Web site at http://wennergren.org/history. lesser-known regions such as Papua New Guinea, Africa, and Most recently, agricultural origins were explored in a special eastern North America, alongside more traditional