Agricultural Intensification and the secondary Products Revolution Aling the Jordan Rift

Agricultural Intensification and the Secondary Products Revolution-Along the Jordan Rift by Patricia L, Fall, Lee Lines and Steven E. Falconer.
The main goals of this paper was to show evidence that the Neolithic agricultural revolution changed the economical and cultural landscapes of the old world and that it was not until in the third and fourth millennia that the second great wave of agricultural intensity brought widespread impacts on the landscape. Another goal of the article is also to discuss the creation of the anthropogenic forests in different parts of the world on both modern and ancient landscapes. Another goal was to apply the expanded notion to the interpretation of the botanical evidence for secondary products revolution in the South of Levant like for example in Western Jordan, Palestine and Modern Israel. The broad questions/Specific hypotheses in this paper include:
Did the Global, Social and environmental Consequences of the domestication of plants especially cereals led to the adoption of Childe’s revolutionary rhetoric about the advent of Agriculture?
To ascertain whether there was a greater production of marketable goods e.g. dairy products and wool during the secondary products revolution.
To determine the social and ecological effects that arose from the domestication of orchard crops and the subsequent marketing of the derivative commodities.
To determine whether the production of wool and the diary products were the immediate consequences in the first domestication of the animals.
To establish whether specialized pastoralism arose as a result of the denudation of the woodlands and expansion of croplands.
The above hypotheses are theoretical, cultural, historical and methodological in nature.
The paper notes that sustainable agricultural systems have comfortably coexisted and coevolved with humans in a mosaic landscape that have all along supported the Near Eastern Communities fo...