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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> Now that is unsustained. Check the archives for 'millet' and 'rice'. eg.
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> Rice, rye and millet came along thousands of years after agriculture
in the Middle East
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Wiki says that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent in the
Middle East ca. 9500 BC (google "history of agriculture"), and rice
cultivation started in China ca. 9000 BC (the "rice" link Torsten
provided). Since we often rely on Wiki, then I'd say we'd have to go
with Rick being right on this one. Maybe the independent development
of agriculture etc. in different places around the world had something
to do with a formulaic amount of time after glaciation ended? (Perhaps
due to shifting rainfall patterns?)
Andrew