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The agricultural revolution

The historical partial terraces in the Jordan Valley. Illustration: Prof. Yigal Aral, Hebrew University

The beginning of the agricultural revolution - the National Science Foundation

Dust that came from the Sahara and Saudi Arabia about 11,000 years ago - contributed to the development of agriculture in the Jordan Valley
Dr. Dafna Langut collects sediment samples from the excavation at the Jordan Steps for microscopic examination of plant remains. Photo credit: Prof. Gonen Sharon, Tel Hai Academic College.

Dramatic climate changes at the end of the Ice Age enabled the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to farmers

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Plant remains have helped researchers reconstruct the climate in the Land of Israel at the end of the last ice age
Claire McFadden, a researcher in the Department of Social Sciences works in the lab with 4,000-year-old skulls. Photo: Australian National University ANU

The agricultural revolution caused a population explosion in Southeast Asia 4,000 years ago

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Prof. Elisabetta Boerto and Dr. Tobias Richter look to the horizon at the Shubeika 1 excavation site - about 150 km northeast of Ravet Ammon. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Herb remains shed new light on the development of the agricultural revolution

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Oats of wild wheat. Credit: Raz Avni, Tel Aviv University.

Researchers have succeeded in sequencing the wild wheat genome

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The Dead Sea. Photo: David Shankbone, Wikimedia.

Researchers have found evidence of the agricultural revolution under the bottom of the Dead Sea

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Skull of a mouse. Source: Photo courtesy of Haifa University.

The house mice's teeth revealed: Man settled in permanent settlements 3,000 years before the time it was common to think

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7,000-year-old olive pits that were discovered in Tel-Zaf, and testified to earlier agriculture than previously thought. Photo: Eli Gestein, for Haifa University

Olive pits from 7,000 years ago reveal that our ancestors at that time were already farmers

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From right to left: Prof. Zion Fahima, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa Michal David, Department of AI Studies and Archaeology, Bar Ilan University Prof. Avraham Korul, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa Prof. Ehud Weiss, Department of AI Studies and Archeology, Bar University Ilan Dr. Shariel Hovner, M.G.L., Tel Hai Academic College Dr. Uri Davidovitz, Institute of Archeology, Hebrew University. Photo: Yoni Reif, Bar-Ilan University Spokesperson

Barley domestication began in Israel in the Galilee region

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