Posted on 06/19/2022 11:50:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archeologists excavating at the Chalcolithic site of Tel Tsaf in the Jordan Valley, Israel, have discovered one of the earliest examples of fruit tree cultivation worldwide, demonstrating that olive (Olea europaea) and common fig (Ficus carica) horticulture was practiced as early as 7,000 years ago.
Today, the olive is considered the most prominent and probably the economically most important fruit tree of the Mediterranean Basin.
Cultivation caused its distribution to expand into areas otherwise beyond its natural habitats...
The charcoal assemblage of Tel Tsaf provides the earliest evidence of olive cultivation outside its natural distribution.
It also offers evidence for early cultivation of common fig, both dated to 7,000 years before present...
The researchers hypothesize that established horticulture contributed to more elaborate social contracts and institutions since olive oil, table olives, and dry figs were highly suitable for long-distance trade and taxation.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
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The article on e coli is less interesting than the earlier and later articles, which are about d coli and f coli, respectively.
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