On partnerships, responsibilities, and political correctness – Reflections on plant domestication at the landscape level

•Recent papers view domestication as a deep-time Paleolithic partnership and associate the term domestication with colonialism.•In hunter-gathers' terms, domestication requires objectification of and domination over reproduction of involved organisms.•The plant package of the Levant (and other...

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Published in:	Quaternary science reviews 2022-11, Vol.296, p.107674, Article 107674
Main Authors:	Abbo, Shahal, Gopher, Avi
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Anti-domestication Co-evolution Near Eastern plant domestication Plant agency
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Summary:	•Recent papers view domestication as a deep-time Paleolithic partnership and associate the term domestication with colonialism.•In hunter-gathers' terms, domestication requires objectification of and domination over reproduction of involved organisms.•The plant package of the Levant (and other world regions) reflects human ingenuity on which we still depend here and now.•No new domestication model was offered in the papers discussed; New terminologies do not change past realities.•In current real politic de-colonialism is a lip service that does not amend global distributive justice or ecological damage.
ISSN:	0277-3791 1873-457X