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.
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.