[SunkenCiv]

2019 excavations in Toda Cave, Uzbekistan

© Robert Spengler

[ClearCase_guy]

bfl

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

While the Ohalo II site is in the Fertile Crescent it also shows signs of small scale farming and is quite a bit older.

[dfwgator]

Just don’t give them money or matches.

[Wuli]

“Recent archaeological work in Toda Cave uncovered evidence that the region’s inhabitants were already engaging in sophisticated harvesting practices 9,200 years ago. “

About 3,000 years after the beginning of the ending of the last ice age, and possibly after “the great flood(s)”.

[GingisK]

It is common for important inventions or discoveries to occur simultaneously in places that are far apart. One example is the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in the United States and England concurrently. (DeForrest, US; Fleming, UK)