Posted on 03/21/2019 12:29:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Farming was developed approximately 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, a region that includes present-day Iraq, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan as well as the fringes of southern Anatolia and western Iran. By about 8,300 BCE it had spread to central Anatolia, in present-day Turkey. These early Anatolian farmers subsequently migrated throughout Europe, bringing this new subsistence strategy and their genes. Today, the single largest component of the ancestry of modern-day Europeans comes from these Anatolian farmers. It has long been debated, however, whether farming was brought to Anatolia similarly by a group of migrating farmers from the Fertile Crescent, or whether the local hunter-gatherers of Anatolia adopted farming practices from their neighbors.
A new study by an international team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and in collaboration with scientists from the United Kingdom, Turkey and Israel, published in Nature Communications, confirms existing archaeological evidence that shows that Anatolian hunter-gatherers did indeed adopt farming themselves, and the later Anatolian farmers were direct descendants of a gene-pool that remained relatively stable for over 7,000 years.
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This is a video interview with the researchers describing the findings of the publication Feldman et al. 2019. Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7 [Credit: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History]
Gobekli Tepe forced a lot of rethinking.
Question: What do you think the odds are that the agriculture was a rediscovery after the Younger Dryas disruptions?
Expanding and contracting ice sheets grind away evidence. Just like they lower and raise sea levels, which tends to hide evidence.
How does a society ‘adopt’ agriculture?....................
The quest for beer.
I can see how wine would be accidentally discovered, fermented fruit juices, but ‘beer’ and ‘liquor’ is a precise process that requires many steps. How did the ancients invent beer?.....................
The way I understand it beer was made by cooking wheat and or barley to preserve it. The drink fermented on its own to everyone’s delight. I do not know how hops got into the picture.
Monks in the Middle Ages....................
I think you are on the right track.
And while we are doing the ‘odds’ bit - what are the chances that all the finds of so-called hunter gatherers where the hunters who kept the city dwellers in meat - those same city dwellers whose abodes are several hundred feet below sea level now and buried in thousands of years of mud, muck, and debris?
And the odds that our whole picture of what life was like 10s of thousands of years ago is totally wrong?
My thoughts, pretty much, too.
I also believe that it wont be until archaeology really focuses on those areas that have gone the longest without glaciation that we’ll really get to understand early humanity.
There’s a lot of stuff in Central America that just doesn’t fit the civilization timeline, which unfortunately leaves it open to exploit by the Ancient Alien types. Eventually, archaeology is going to have to come to terms with modern humans being older than their current model assumes as well as reassessing the age of artifacts and ruins in un-glaciated areas.
If it is introduced by a foreign culture, such as the Indo-Europeans.
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At Catal Huyuk, the original dig turned up no earlier development in terms of construction and such; the surmise is, given the age of the site, that the people who built it, the first generation to live there, had been displaced as the world sealevel rose as a consequence of the melting of the glaciers. Apparently they'd moved off what is now the submerged continental shelf.
I can ‘adopt’ a child, a dog or a cat, but they must first be orphaned..........................
Adopting a new practice is different from adopting children or pets. And neither a child nor a pet needs to be orphaned to be adopted.
City dwellers would have been in the business of manufacture and trade, and manufacture generally requires trade for the raw materials. Thus, they would tend to be near water, because boats are the easiest way to transport heavy things for long distances, and boats have been around since prehistoric times
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