In contemporary archaeological and anthropological research, the domestication of plants and animals in the Near East during the Early Holocene is alternatively interpreted as an over-all slow and gradual, or as a rapid process. The present reanalysis of published archaeobotanical and archaeozoological data shows that the wild-domesticate-transition (WDT) was indeed initially slow (millennial scale), but terminated at 10.2 ± 0.2 ka cal BP with an abrupt switch to herding and agriculture. The abruptness of WDT can be understood as due to amplification under positive feedback conditions (resonance) of some few biological and social factors, primarily the short and long- distance transport of domesticates, in conjunction with a synchronous, abrupt climatic switch to higher precipitation.
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机译：在当代考古和人类学研究中，全新世早期近东植物和动物的驯化也被解释为总体上缓慢而渐进的过程，或者说是快速过程。目前对已发布的考古植物学和考古学数据的重新分析表明，野生家畜转变（WDT）最初确实很慢（千年尺度），但终止于10.2±0.2 ka cal BP，突然转向牧民和农业。 WDT的突然发生可以理解为是由于一些生物学和社会因素（主要是家畜的短距离和长距离运输）在正反馈条件下（共振）的放大，加上同步的，突然的向高降水量的气候转换。
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