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spiralsheepSource: evidence that humans had farms 30,000 years earlier than previously thought (@ arstechnica)
More: Amazon forest is the result of an 8,000 year experiment (@ arstechnica).
Evidence that humans had farms 30,000 years earlier than previously thought
Dramatic new hypothesis could change the way we understand human history.
by Annalee Newitz - 8/3/2017
It's an idea that could transform our understanding of how humans went from small bands of hunter-gatherers to farmers and urbanites. Until recently, anthropologists believed cities and farms emerged about 9,000 years ago in the Mediterranean and Middle East. But now a team of interdisciplinary researchers has gathered evidence showing how civilization as we know it may have emerged at the equator, in tropical forests. Not only that, but people started farming about 30,000 years earlier than we thought.
( Full text of article for archiving purposes. )
More: Amazon forest is the result of an 8,000 year experiment (@ arstechnica).
Evidence that humans had farms 30,000 years earlier than previously thought
Dramatic new hypothesis could change the way we understand human history.
by Annalee Newitz - 8/3/2017
It's an idea that could transform our understanding of how humans went from small bands of hunter-gatherers to farmers and urbanites. Until recently, anthropologists believed cities and farms emerged about 9,000 years ago in the Mediterranean and Middle East. But now a team of interdisciplinary researchers has gathered evidence showing how civilization as we know it may have emerged at the equator, in tropical forests. Not only that, but people started farming about 30,000 years earlier than we thought.
( Full text of article for archiving purposes. )
