504 i Index
crop domestication and gender (Cont.)
mouse spread in, 56, 67n55
sacred fruit tree motif of, 48– 50,
49 f, 66n45
seeds of, embedded, 53, 54f
of cereals, tough rachis selection in, 36– 40,
38 f– 39f, 65n23
Fertile Crescent, founder crops, 36
iconography revolution and, 40– 47
dancers in, female, 45– 47, 46f, 66n38
Khiamian figurines in, 40– 44, 42f
Natufian figurines in, 40, 41f
Sha’ar Hagolans and Yarmukian figurines
in, 44– 47, 45f– 46f
Sultanian figurines in, 43f, 44
Mugharet el- Wad cave, sedentism in, 30, 30f
by Natufians, as sedentary hunter- gatherers,
31– 33, 31t, 64– 65n8
origins of, evolutionary ecology on, 65n18
selfers in, 36
in Shukba cave, sedentism in, 29, 30f
in time and space, 35– 36
in Valley of the Caves, Mount Carmel,
30– 31, 30f
Younger Dryas and environmental stress
theory on, 33– 35, 34f
cross- fertilization, Darwin on, 490– 491
cryptogams (Cryptogamia), 465– 470
ferns in
asexual spores in, 466
reproduction stages of, asexual, 468,
469 f, 479
reproduction stages of, sexual, 468, 470f
gametophytes in, as embryo sac and pollen
grains, 484– 486, 485f, 486f
Hedwig on, 466– 467
heterospory in, 482– 483
Linnaeus on, 465– 466
moss in
asexual spores in, 466
reproduction stages of, asexual,
465– 466, 466f
reproduction stages of, sexual,
467– 468, 467f
plants in, 465
sporangium and spores of, 465, 466f
cultural diffusion, 71– 72
cuneiform script, 131n9
Curll, Edmund, 380
Curtius, E. R., 290
Cybele
Great Mother (Meter), 186– 187, 236, 237f
“Mother of the Mountain,” 186– 187,
236, 237f
cylinder seals, Uruk tree goddesses on, 111– 114,
112 f, 113f, 134n64
Cypriot Epics, 189dancers and dancing, female, Neolithic, 45– 47,
46 f, 66n38
Da nte’s Inferno, Hell in, 289, 318n5
Daphne
Apollo and, 194f
as laurel, 193, 194f
Dark Age, on Greece, 182
Darwin, Charles, 477
alternation of generations and, 495n5
on cross- fertilization, 490– 491
on hybrid progeny, 491– 492
Origin of Species, 477, 478, 489– 493
on outcrossing, 490– 491
on utilitarian doctrine, 491
Darwin, Erasmus, 380
on Drosera, 401
on Gloriosa, 395, 403n40
“The Loves of Plants,” 380, 394– 401,
403nn39– 40
on mimosa, 398
The Temple of Nature, 398
on Vaillisneria spiralis, 398, 399f– 400f
“Zoonomia,” 397– 398
date palm trees, 92– 103, 182
Al- ’Uzza (goddess of date palms), 271– 274
artificial pollination of
in Mesopotamia, 94– 98
by Minoans, 142, 177n15
in Neo- Assyria, 121– 122, 121f, 123f, 124f,
135– 136n79
Theophrastus on, 223– 225
Çatalhüyük phytoliths of, 66n45
dates in Queen’s Puabi “diadem” in, 98– 101,
99 f, 100f
domestication of, 85, 86– 87
flowers of, 92– 94, 95f
female pistillate, 94, 95f
male staminate, 92, 93f