Primary agriculture

A cross-section of land showing limestone and vegetation, illustrating nature and biodiversity.

The Neolithic Revolution that began the modern era

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New research from the Hebrew University reveals how natural fires and soil erosion following extreme climate events pushed the transition to agricultural life about 10,000 years ago
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
A bull figurine that was discovered at the excavation site of a 9,000-year-old settlement in the area of ​​origin. Photo by Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority

A huge 9000-year-old prehistoric settlement, the largest in Israel and one of the largest in the world, was uncovered near Moza

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The earliest evidence of aquaculture 3,500 years ago - in the eastern Mediterranean

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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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. The earliest known domesticated pea seeds in the world found in Echihud. Photo: Kobi Vardi, courtesy of the Antiquities Authority

Early man 10,000 years ago preferred legumes and grew them in organized agriculture

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Now it's official: the fig is the first domesticated plant in history

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the house cat From Wikipedia

The cat was domesticated already 9,500 years ago in Cyprus

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