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First evidence of farming in Mideast 23,000 years ago: Evidence of earliest small-scale agricultural cultivation
Until now, researchers believed farming was 'invented' some 12,000 years ago in an area that was home to some of the earliest known human civilizations. A new discovery offers the first evidence that trial plant cultivation began far earlier -- some 23,000 years ago.
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But that's thirteen to seventeen thousand years before the Earth was created! /s