This grim discovery supports my theory on how people started farming. It was a secert discovered during warfare. One side of a fight , in desperate need of food, asked the simple question of how did plants get started and figured it out . A similar thing happened during WW1. Germany was cut off from fertilizer so the Haber process of getting nitrogen from air turned into ammonia was invented.
Re: A similar thing happened during WW1. Germany was cut off from fertilizer so the Haber process of getting nitrogen from air turned into ammonia was invented.
In World War 2, the Germans also developed industrial-scale coal liquefaction, for motor fuel, after their primary oil source, Romania, fell to the Russians.