Editing Founder crops (section)

== Other crops ==

The founder crops were not the only species domesticated in southwest Asia, nor were they necessarily the most important in the Neolithic period.{{sfn|Arranz-Otaegui|2021}} Domesticated [[rye]] (''Secale cereale'') occurs in the final Epipalaeolithic strata at [[Tell Abu Hureyra]] (the earliest instance of domesticated plant species),<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hillman |first1=Gordon |author1-link=Gordon Hillman |last2=Hedges |first2=Robert |last3=Moore |first3=Andrew |last4=Colledge |first4=Susan |last5=Pettitt |first5=Paul |title=New evidence of Lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates |journal=The Holocene |volume=11 |issue=4 |year=2001 |issn=0959-6836 |doi=10.1191/095968301678302823 |pages=383–393 |bibcode=2001Holoc..11..383H |s2cid=84930632 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200033056 |access-date=2023-06-25 |archive-date=2021-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120221734/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200033056_New_evidence_of_Late_Glacial_cereal_cultivation_at_Abu_Hureyra_on_the_Euphrates |url-status=live }}</ref> but was not common until the spread of farming into [[northern Europe]] several millennia later.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hillman |first=Gordon |author-link=Gordon Hillman |chapter=Climate-induced changes in the plant resources of hunter-gatherers of the northern Fertile Crescent: preludes to cereal cultivation? |editor=Harris, David R. |title=The origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in Eurasia |year=1996 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-8572-8537-6}}</ref> Other plants cultivated in the Neolithic include [[Almond|sweet almond]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ladizinsky |first=G. |title=On the Origin of Almond |journal=Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution |issue=2 |pages=143–147 |year=1999 |volume=46 |doi=10.1023/A:1008690409554|s2cid=25141013 }}</ref> and [[Common fig|figs]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 June 2006 |title=Figs likely first domesticated crop |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2006/06/figs-likely-first-domesticated-crop/}}</ref>

As of 2018, many scholars disagreed with the "founder notion".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kris Hirst |date=2018-08-31 |title=Were There Really Only Eight Founder Crops in Farming History? |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/founder-crops-origins-of-agriculture-171203 |access-date=2023-05-25 |website=ThoughtCo |language=en |archive-date=2023-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525231331/https://www.thoughtco.com/founder-crops-origins-of-agriculture-171203 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 2012, scholars suggested that there were likely more than just 8 "founder crops", including 16 or 17 different species of cereals and legumes and figs. Larger DNA data sets and better analytical techniques suggest a more complex picture.<ref name="fuller">{{Cite journal |last1=Fuller |first1=Dorian Q. |last2=Willcox |first2=George |last3=Allaby |first3=Robin G. |date=January 2012 |title=Early agricultural pathways: moving outside the 'core area' hypothesis in Southwest Asia |journal=Journal of Experimental Botany |language=en |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=617–633 |doi=10.1093/jxb/err307 |pmid=22058404 |issn=1460-2431 |doi-access=free }}</ref> 
In 2000, a "new" glume wheat (NGW), a type of cultivated wheat which existed across western Asia and Europe was found in archeological sites of Hungary, then Turkey<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Czajkowska |first1=Beata I. |last2=Bogaard |first2=Amy |last3=Charles |first3=Michael |last4=Jones |first4=Glynis |last5=Kohler-Schneider |first5=Marianne |last6=Mueller-Bieniek |first6=Aldona |last7=Brown |first7=Terence A. |date=2020-11-01 |title=Ancient DNA typing indicates that the "new" glume wheat of early Eurasian agriculture is a cultivated member of the Triticum timopheevii group |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440320301795 |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science |language=en |volume=123 |pages=105258 |doi=10.1016/j.jas.2020.105258 |bibcode=2020JArSc.123j5258C |s2cid=225168770 |issn=0305-4403}}</ref> and in 2023 in Bavaria, Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-25 |title=7.000 Jahre altes Urgetreide begeistert Experten |url=https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/7-000-jahre-altes-urgetreide-begeistert-experten,TfFj2yC |access-date=2023-05-25 |website=BR24 |language=de |archive-date=2023-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525124601/https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/7-000-jahre-altes-urgetreide-begeistert-experten,TfFj2yC |url-status=live }}</ref>