domestication of plants

Science magazine cover, 2/3/2023. From the magazine website.

SCIENCE: The Near East is the origin of the oldest vine in the world

An international study published in the journal Science, in which researchers from several institutions in Israel also participated, sheds light on the origin of the grape for food and wine, and proves that the grape was simultaneously domesticated in the Levant and secondarily in the South Caucasus
A branch from an olive tree on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem. Image: depositphotos.com

A global discovery shared by Tel Aviv and Hebrew: olive trees were first domesticated 7,000 years ago

An analysis of charcoal remains collected as part of an excavation at the Tel Tsaf polyglot site in the Jordan Valley determines that these are the remains of olive trees. Since the Jordan Valley is outside the olive's natural habitat,
14,000 year old wild pea seeds; The "ancestral mother" of the modern Pole.

The search for the wild pea