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Researchers identify plant cultivation in a 23,000-year-old site in the Galilee
2015-07-22 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] 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,…
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