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Garden Master
Interesting article about how foraging with repeated harvesting contributed to the development of agriculture. Evidence of the plants used, barley, pistachios and apples, was found by archeologists. Genetically analysis of tissue shows that this food was growing wild but the tools found are similar to those used by the earliest farmers.
Sickles for cutting the barley — The researchers suggest that the annual harvesting of wild barley evolved into the domestication of the crop.
Steve
www.earth.com
Sickles for cutting the barley — The researchers suggest that the annual harvesting of wild barley evolved into the domestication of the crop.
Steve
World's earliest traces of agriculture were recently discovered in a cave
Stone tools and wild barley grains reveal pre-agricultural crop harvesting dating back 9,200 years inside a remote cave.
