Earliest Agricultural Tools

[digitS']

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

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.

www.earth.com

 

[flowerbug]

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

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.

www.earth.com

think of all the weeding we'd not be doing if they'd just stuck to hunting and gathering...

 

[digitS']

But, we would never have had ..

. as abundant a supply of ..

. beer!

 

[flowerbug]

it has been a long time since i last enjoyed a good dark beer. after my old friend passed away i no longer had my once in a while beer and bratwurst (and saurkraut!) buddy to visit a few times a year.