From: tgpedersen
Message: 42939
Date: 2006-01-14
> In India, the archaeological remains so far had indicated thatfarming
> started 5,000 to 6,000 years back. But scholar and historians werenot
> willing to buy the findings, specially when the country had all theshould
> resources for agriculture? In India too agriculture practices
> have started earlier or at the same period as in othercivilizations,
> they asserted.have
>
> Lahuradeva has now provided the answer. The archaeologists here
> found remains of carbonised material containing grains ofcultivated
> rice along with wild grass. There are several layers of ancientout
> civilization buried under the mound as the archaeologists found
> when they dug deeper..This is what I've found through Google:
>
> The findings indicate that people residing in this area too started
> farming 10,000 years back.