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To: SunkenCiv

I'm amaized! I still believe grapes were the first domesticated crop though!


3 posted on 12/26/2005 9:02:23 PM PST by shuckmaster (An oak tree is an acorns way of making more acorns)
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To: shuckmaster

Barley -- 14,000 years before present.

Appropriate FR handle for this topic, BTW.


4 posted on 12/26/2005 9:04:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
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To: shuckmaster

The original human diet had to be some combination of fruit and shellfish. Elaine Morgan is almost certainly correct in thinking humans originally lived in water and whether a person believes in evolution is pretty much irrelevant to that question. Humans would have eaten shellfish which we could deal with with our hands and which fish can't do anything with, and fruit which they went up on shore for. Things like wheat and greens would be tastes acquired much later and it's far from obvious that anything like that is good for us.


9 posted on 12/26/2005 9:21:19 PM PST by darkocean
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