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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440321001680 by Xiaoshuang Zhao 12/21 ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440321001680 by Xiaoshuang Zhao 12/21 ScienceDirect] | ||
Long-standing arguments regarding the early cultural transition, the domestication of plants and the impacts of climate change on past Egyptian societies remain contentious. In this paper, we demonstrate that grazing started at our study site, Kom El-Khilgan in the NE Nile Delta, ca. 7000 years ago, which was several hundred years prior to crop farming. | Long-standing arguments regarding the early cultural transition, the domestication of plants and the impacts of climate change on past Egyptian societies remain contentious. In this paper, we demonstrate that grazing started at our study site, Kom El-Khilgan in the NE Nile Delta, ca. 7000 years ago, which was several hundred years prior to crop farming. | ||
=====Where Did Agriculture Begin? Oh Boy, It's Complicated===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/15/485722228/where-did-agriculture-begin-oh-boy-its-complicated by Rhitu Chatterjee 15/7/16 npr] | |||
First, they grew wild varieties of crops like peas, lentils and barley and herded wild animals like goats and wild oxen. Centuries later, they switched to farming full time, breeding both animals and plants, creating new varieties and breeds. Eventually, they migrated outward, spreading farming to parts of Europe and Asia. | |||
