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It is finally out! Our paper presenting a new functional ecological model to analyse agricultural disturbance throughout the Early Neolithic in SW Asia. Why is this super exciting? Here's a thread... 1/x 🌾👩🌾🐮
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nature.com/articles/s4147…
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nature.com/articles/s4147…
During the Early Neolithic in SW Asia, the oldest agricultural societies globally appear between 12,000-8,000 years ago. They built permanent houses, lived in larger communities, and changed the way they obtained food: they started to farm plants and animals!
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But how did this process unfold? We know that people in the earliest permanent settlements between ca 12,000-10,000 years ago did not have domesticated plants like cereals and legumes but harvested their wild progenitors - e.g. wild emmer and barley.
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