Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University ...
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Did farming begin outside the Fertile Crescent? 9,200-year-old grains found in Uzbek cave
Researchers reported 9,200-year-old evidence of plant use and wild cereal harvesting from Toda Cave in southern Uzbekistan, arguing it represented a precursor to agriculture and broadened where and ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Neolithic era marked ancient humanity’s giant leap from ...
Ancient DNA has revealed how the prehistory of the Near East's largest domestic animal, the cow, chimes with the emergence of the first complex economies, cities and the rise and fall of the world ...
The first goat farmers created the best breeds for meat, milk and hides by breeding their beasts with wild herds. Humans began domesticating animals more than 10,000 years ago, thereby ensuring a ...
“A shelf and a half in a borrowed room” is all that Oxford Archaeologist Max Mallowan remembers the Iraq Museum as being back in 1925. But the surge of Arab nationalism that made Iraq independent ...
TERBOL, Lebanon — Inside a large freezer room at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, tens of thousands of seeds are stored at a constant temperature of minus-4 degrees ...
Saudi Arabia’s Heritage Commission announced Thursday the discovery of Masiyun, an 11,000–10,300-year-old pre-pottery Neolithic settlement northwest of Tabuk, which it said is the oldest documented ...
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