The papers presented in this supplementary issue are designed to provide the latest information on the antiquity of agriculture covering at least 10 different centers of domestication. Diamond mentions Yali, a New Guinean politician interested in the history of his country and the colonization of New Guinea. The global nature of agricultural origins was a key theme, and a major focus of the discussions was on East Asia as well as lesser-known regions such as Papua New Guinea, Africa, and eastern North America, alongside more traditional areas such as the Near East and Mesoamerica. Guns, Germs, and Steel Summary The book begins with a preface in which Diamond claims that the main purpose of his text is to explain why different countries developed in different manners. The major aim of the symposium was to better understand the origins of agriculture in light of new fieldwork, new sites, new analytical techniques, and more radiocarbon dates. It also aims to explain why some societies were much more successful than others. Douglas Price (Uni- versity of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Aber- deen) and Ofer Bar-Yosef (Harvard University). Guns, Germs, and Steel sets out to tell the history for the last 13,000 years.
The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas resulted from a Wenner-Gren-sponsored symposium held at the Hacienda Temozon, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, March 6–13, 2009 (fig.
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