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This wasn't large scale by any means but this does predate any previously found examples of farming by thousands of years.
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/...ael-03052.html
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/...ael-03052.html
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Interesting!!Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
This discovery doubles the age of the earliest proto-agriculture.Last edited by shunyadragon; 07-29-2015, 08:47 AM.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostAnd nearly four times older than the planet!
You cheeky blighter...
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There is along history of Neolithic culture using genetic selection to come up with new strains of crops like corn, flax, rice, and other fruits, vegetables and grains. It is likely that the beginnings of cultivation is older.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.Comment
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