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Oh, millets.
Thought they found out that mullets predated the '80s.
At first glance I thought that read "Mullet"
I was a little disappointed when I read the body of this post - I thought the headline said they discovered the first mullet - I assumed they simultaneously discovered the first trailer park. j/k
Makes it sound like someone just waved their hand and brought the main cereals into existence a few thousand years ago. You don't suppose .... naaaaaaah! But then again ...
Not rice? Unthinkable.
Chinese archaeologists find the earliest known ancestors of Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875), the French painter, and of Lluis Millet (1867-1941), the Catalan composer.
And here I always thought it was "The Outer Millets." (Please stand by).
Well, blam --- I'M taking it seriously and with interest!
That puts it back a couple thousand more years than the millet in the Banpo site in Xi'An. (I guess Xi-An is considered the Yellow River Valley)
What culture and ancient period would that be, I wonder.
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Archaeological discoveries show that the main cereals, including wheat, barley, rice and maize all originated 10,000 to 8,000 years ago.Actually, that's not true. Multirow barley (the cultivated kind) goes back at least 14,000 years (non-calibrated RC date, so the actual figure is higher).
