Researchers from Tübingen document origins of agriculture in
the Zagros foothills of Iran
For decades archaeologists have been searching for the
origins of agriculture. Their findings indicated that early plant domestication
took place in the western and northern Fertile Crescent. In the July 5 edition
of the journal Science, researchers from the University of Tübingen, the
Tübingen Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, and the
Iranian Center for Archaeological Research demonstrate that the foothills of
the Zagros Mountains of Iran in the eastern Fertile Crescent also served as a
key center for early domestication.