“…Household agents select patches of land needed for fields and pasture, using decision algorithms informed by past farming and herding experience, household food and fuel needs, the relative importance of plant cultivation versus page 8 animal herding and perception of potential patch productivity (Mayer et al, 2006). Published studies of subsistence farming-with emphasis on the Mediterranean and xeric landscapesparameterize land-use practices in the MML, including the way land is assessed and land-use decisions made, and the caloric returns from common Mediterranean domesticates (cereals, legumes, ovicaprines, cattle, pigs) (Al-Jaloudy, 2006;Araus et al, 1997;Corbeels et al, 2000;Gibbon, 1981;Hillman, 1973;Hirata et al, 1998;Kamp, 2000Kamp, , 1987Kamp, , p. 1987Khresat et al, 2008Khresat et al, , 1998Kramer, 1982Kramer, , 1980Nyerges, 1980;Stuth and Sheffield, 1991;Thomson, 1987;Thomson et al, 1986;Ullah, 2013Ullah, , 2011Watson, 1979). Because of our focus on the initial emergence of coupled natural and human landscapes, we have emphasized modeling the first nutritionally significant domesticates in the Mediterranean region-cereal grasses (primarily wheat and barley) and ovicaprines (sheep and goats).…”