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Archaeology & Anthropology: Open Access

Ethiopia is an Important Center of Crop Origin: A Proof from Archaeology and Anthropology

  • Open or Close Alemayehu Kefalew1* and Sara Sintayehu2

    1 Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

    2 Department of Natural Resource Management, Haramaya University, Ethiopia

    *Corresponding author: A Kefalew, Researcher of Ethnobotany, Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Submission: May 24, 2018; Published: September 19, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/AAOA.2018.02.000548

ISSN: 2577-1949
Volume2 Issue5

Abstract

Ethiopia from the perspectives of biodiversity and crop origin, Ethiopia is believed to be a land of topographic diversities [1] and home of multiple ethnic groups [2]. Moreover, it is known to be a land for the origin of both human kind and plants (Alemayehu Kefalew and Sara Sintayehu, 2017). Globally Ethiopia is known to be part of biodiversity hotspot area. Below (Figure 1), the red marks, are Earth’s biologically richest places with high number of species found nowhere else, and one of which is Ethiopia.

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