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[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2304407120 by John Carey 5/4/23 PNAS] | [https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2304407120 by John Carey 5/4/23 PNAS] | ||
As the last great ice sheets were retreating and the Pleistocene Epoch was ending, humanity began an epic journey. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors had survived by hunting animals and gathering edible wild plants. But starting about 11,700 years ago, people began to use wild plants in ways that changed the plants themselves, a process called domestication. People also began to alter their environments as they cultivated those plants. The result was the profound landscape and cultural transformation we know as agriculture. | As the last great ice sheets were retreating and the Pleistocene Epoch was ending, humanity began an epic journey. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors had survived by hunting animals and gathering edible wild plants. But starting about 11,700 years ago, people began to use wild plants in ways that changed the plants themselves, a process called domestication. People also began to alter their environments as they cultivated those plants. The result was the profound landscape and cultural transformation we know as agriculture. | ||
=====Early agriculture and crop transmission among Bronze Age mobile pastoralists of Central Eurasia===== | |||
[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24695428/ by Robert Spengler 22/5/14 NIH] | |||
Archaeological research in Central Eurasia is exposing unprecedented scales of trans-regional interaction and technology transfer between East Asia and southwest Asia deep into the prehistoric past. This article presents a new archaeobotanical analysis from pastoralist campsites in the mountain and desert regions of Central Eurasia that documents the oldest known evidence for domesticated grains and farming among seasonally mobile herders. | |||
