Neolithic Syrians Were First to Domesticate Cereals (VIDEO)

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

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11,000 years ago, a Syrian community began a practice which would change man's relationship with his surroundings forever: the initiation of cereal domestication and, with it, the commencement of agriculture, a process which lasted several millennia.

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