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July 24, 2015

Researchers identify plant cultivation in a 23,000-year-old site in the Galilee
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Jul 24, 2015
The Middle East is called the "Cradle of Civilization" because it is where our hunter-gatherer ancestors first established sedentary farming communities. Recently, the traditional dating of humans' first agricultural attempt was shaken up by the discovery of the earliest-known example of plant cultivation in the Levant, 11,000 years earlier than previously accepted. The team of archaeologists, botanists, and ecologists from Bar-Ilan University, Haifa University, Tel Aviv University, and Harvard Un ... read more

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