1. Childe, V. G. New Light on the Most Ancient Near East (Praeger, New York, 1953).
2. Moore, A. M. T., Hillman, G. C. & Legge, A. J. Village on the Euphrates, from Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureyra (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2000).
3. Gopher, A., Abbo, S. & Lev-Yadun, S. The 'when', the 'where' and the 'why' of the Neolithic revolution in the Levant. Documenta Praehistorica 28, 49–62 (2002).
4. Diamond, J. Guns, Germs and Steel (Random House, London, 1997).
5. Zohary, D. & Hopf, M. Domestication of Plants in the Old World 3rd edn (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2000).A good and detailed starting point for understanding the origin of agriculture.