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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780444427038500063 by D. ZOHARI 1986 ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780444427038500063 by D. ZOHARI 1986 ScienceDirect] | ||
Definite signs of plant cultivation first appear in the Near East ‘arc’ at the second half of the 8th millennium B.C. and the 7th millennium B.C. The principal ‘founder crops’ discovered in the early Neolithic Near Eastern farming villages are: emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, barley, lentil, pea, bitter vetch, chickpea and flax. | Definite signs of plant cultivation first appear in the Near East ‘arc’ at the second half of the 8th millennium B.C. and the 7th millennium B.C. The principal ‘founder crops’ discovered in the early Neolithic Near Eastern farming villages are: emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, barley, lentil, pea, bitter vetch, chickpea and flax. | ||
=====From foraging to farming: the 10,000-year revolution===== | |||
[https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/from-foraging-to-farming-the-10000-year-revolution by Kharaneh shells 22/3/12 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE] | |||
The moment when the hunter-gatherers laid down their spears and began farming around 11,000 years ago is often interpreted as one of the most rapid and significant transitions in human history – the ‘Neolithic Revolution’. | |||
