Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Preface to the New Edition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Prehistoric Plant Domestication in East Asia -- 3 The Origins of Plant Cultivation in the Near East -- 4 Indigenous African Agriculture -- 5 The Origins of Crop Agriculture in Europe -- 6 Prehistoric Plant Husbandry in Eastern North America -- 7 Earliest Plant Cultivation in the Desert Borderlands of North America -- 8 The Origins of Agriculture in Mesoamerica and Central America -- 9 The Origins of Plant Cultivation in South America -- 10 Some Concluding Remarks -- Index.