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As humans settled in one location, they quickly exhausted the supply of local wild cereals. Then, as populations grew there was a demand for more readily available crops, which led to the beginnings of domestication. Once humans began to farm more intensively, they selected grains for different traits, such as increased grain yields. The crops they cultivated created new domesticated plant species that looked very different from their wild counterparts.

 Wild and Domestic Pig (Sus) Humerii

Name: Wild and Domesticated Cereals

Material: Plant material

Size: Various

Date: 1960s

Place of Origin: Jarmo, Iraq

Location: Oriental Institute Museum

Source and Registration#:
Oriental Institute Museum.

Gil Stein

Director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago