Topic: Figs
In an article by Rebecca Morelle, science reporter for the BBC news, I found an even earlier example of agriculture.A team of US and Israeli researchers found carbonized figs from Gilgal I, a Neolithic village in the Jordan Valley, that date from between 11,200 and 11,400 years old.These figs, the article goes on to say are a variety that can only be grown with human help pinpointing the time when humans turned from hunter-gatherers to food cultivation.These small figs, nine in number were found in a house together with wild barley, wild oats, and acorns. The team concluded that the Neolithic people who lived in the village combined food cultivation with hunting and gathering. These figs which pre-date the cultivation of other domesticated crops such as wheat and barley maybe the first known example (apart from carbonized rice found in Korea dated to 15,000 years ago) of agriculture.
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It is so amazing to know backgrounds of cultiviting figs. Just think about it, we eat and enjoy in the same fruit our long ancestors did… Wow…
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We have wild figs here in my neighbours garden. Not too fond of them myself Joanna. That’s because as kids we had to have a dose of Syrup of figs which I hated. But thanks for sharing this post which of course is very interesting.
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I haven’t had a fig in ages but as a kid they were everywhere. Somehow what I remember they tasted like is not what the do… joanna
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