Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University ...
TERBOL, Lebanon — Inside a large freezer room at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, tens of thousands of seeds are stored at a constant temperature of minus-4 degrees ...
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Did farming begin outside the Fertile Crescent? 9,200-year-old grains found in Uzbek cave
Researchers reported 9,200-year-old evidence of plant use and wild cereal harvesting from Toda Cave in southern Uzbekistan, arguing it represented a precursor to agriculture and broadened where and ...
CLIMATEWIRE | The Middle East's Fertile Crescent is experiencing one of the most severe droughts in its history — and climate change has made it worse. Rising temperatures, driven by human greenhouse ...
Around 12,800 years ago, the Younger Dryas plunged parts of the world back into near-glacial conditions. Yet in the Fertile Crescent, humanity was laying the foundations of agriculture, villages, and ...
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