Archaeologists find possible evidence of earliest human agriculture

theguardian.com ^ | 7/24/2015 | Peter Beaumont

[GoneSalt]

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered dramatic evidence of what they believe are the earliest known attempts at agriculture, 11,000 years before the generally recognised advent of organised cultivation.

The study examined more than 150,000 examples of plant remains recovered from an unusually well preserved hunter-gatherer settlement on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel.

Previously, scientists had believed that organised agriculture in the Middle East, including animal husbandry and crop cultivation, had begun in the late Holocene period – around 12,000 BC – and later spread west through Europe.

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks GoneSalt. I think I did the Digest ping already, but just in case...

[Cowboy Bob]

Organized agriculture came about as a result of man’s desire for beer.

[Noumenon]

Because you can’t make beer without agriculture.

[barbarianbabs]

Beer is food

[SunkenCiv]

KEYWORDS: oenology; zymurgy

[Tainan]

................beer.