Remarkable Discovery Could Push Back Human Agriculture by 11,000 Years

io9 ^ | 7/24/15 12:40pm | George Dvorsky

[WhiskeyX]

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered evidence of early cereal cultivation at a 23,000-year-old site in Galilee, effectively doubling the timespan humans are believed to have practiced farming.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Neanderthals are almost TWICE as old as first thought: DNA suggests emerged 700,000 years ago
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3336842/posts

[dp0622]

I bet it was Captain Crunch. :)

I’m sorry.

[Pontiac]

Ping

[Pontiac]

The authors add that “their presence indicates the earliest, small-scale attempt to cultivate wild cereals seen in the archaeological record.”

Now if they can find evidence of beer making then they can call it CIVILIZATION.

[hondact200]

Who wrote the Title is an Ignoramus. Push Back Agricultural Practices 11,000 years. I believe it should be Agricultural Practices have been determined to exist earlier with the latest research and archeological discoveries! But what do I know, I am just a pastor and counselor.

[a fool in paradise]

That’s nothing, Islam today could set society back 10,000 years.

[pepsionice]

The article has been out several weeks....so I’ve read the whole thing over and pondered over it. What they say is that for evidence-purposes....they were fairly set to roughly 12,000 years ago (10,000 BC). With evidence in hand, they are up to 21,000 BC. It’s a fairly big chunk of time.

But the truth of the matter is that it was simply a lucky find, and there could tens of thousands of human agricultural sites out there....going way beyond that, and we simply haven’t hit ‘pay-dirt’ yet.

I think the big deal to all of this is that we didn’t really advance in society or civilization....until we stabilized and developed roots to one valley or one region. At that point, knowledge, community, and culture was locked down to one family, one clan, or one village.

[IronJack]

Then we may have to change the definition of “the world’s oldest profession.”

[Dr. Sivana]

Who wrote the Title is an Ignoramus. Push Back Agricultural Practices 11,000 years. I believe it should be Agricultural Practices have been determined to exist earlier with the latest research and archeological discoveries!

I had a different reason to consider thwe wrioter of teh headline an ignoramus. On first reading, I feared that the EPA or some such was going to outlaw all modern fertilizers and farming techniques, pushing us back 11,000 years.

[ModelBreaker]

“Then we may have to change the definition of “the world’s oldest profession.”

Probably not. I suspect it preceded agriculture :)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pontiac.

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[BenLurkin]

Huh.

[minnesota_bound]

People had to eat back then too........

[Sawdring]

I had a different reason to consider thwe wrioter of teh headline an ignoramus.

[Dr. Sivana]

I had a different reason to consider thwe wrioter of teh headline an ignoramus.

I ssume the writer of the published article wasn't trying to post between work day assignments with fat fingers on an iPod Touch. I hold him to a higher standard. There is a difference between an obvious typo and bad reasoning.

[Sawdring]

Come on, I just thought it was amusing.

[SunkenCiv]

New test for ancient DNA authenticity throws doubt on Stone Age wheat trade
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151103064601.htm

[SunkenCiv]

for later:

Israeli archaeologists discover 7,000-year-old settlement
http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-archaeologists-discover-7-000-old-settlement-142900613.html

[SunkenCiv]

12,000-Year-Old Village Unearthed in Israel
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4191-160218-israel-paleolithic-neolithic-village

Remains of chalcolithic era settlement found in Jerusalem
“New archaeological discoveries attest to the existence of a well-established settlement in the Jerusalem area as long ago as the fifth millennium BC, as well as to the fact that Jerusalem has been a prime real-estate location for 7,000 years.”
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/02/remains-of-chalcolithic-era-settlement-found-in-jerusalem/109781

Jerusalem Even Older Than Thought: Archaeologists Find 7,000-year-old Houses
Discovery made while building a road in Shuafat, in north Jerusalem, includes earliest-known houses in Jerusalem, gemstone beads and stone tools.
Nir Hasson and Ruth Schuster
Feb 17, 2016 10:41 AM
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.703852