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In this post we present data, sourced from official publications, on the very interesting issue of Animal Domestication in the Prehistoric Aegean. Continue reading “Animal domestication processes in the Prehistoric Aegean (9th millennium B.C.)”
In this post we present selected parts of the very interesting paper titled: “First Evidence of Cotton at Neolithic Mehrgarh, Pakistan: Analysis of Mineralized Fibres from a Copper Bead“, by Christophe Moulherat et al., 2002. Continue reading “Exploitation and possible Cotton Domestication at Neolithic Mehrgarh, Pakistan (6th millennium BC)”
The Yangtze Valley in central China is widely regarded by archaeologists, palaeobotanists and plant geneticists as the location of the earliest cultivation of Asian rice. Continue reading “Domestication and Agriculture in southern China”
Between approximately 11,000 and 5,000 years ago, human societies in many different regions of the world brought a wide range of different species of plants and animals under domestication, marking the initial emergence of food production economies and the beginning of one of the major transitions in human history. Continue reading “Eastern United States region; one of the world’s independent centers of domestication”
In this post the reader can learn about some very interesting finds from the PPN site of Aşıklı Höyük, situated in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Continue reading “Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey; the very interesting finds from a Central Anatolian Pre-Pottery Neolithic site”
In this post we present excerpts from ancient Greek and Latin texts which refer to one of the central Greek and Graeco-Roman myths; the myth of Triptolemus. Continue reading “The ancient myth of Triptolemus suggests that Agriculture begun in the Greek peninsula and spread from there to the rest of the World”
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