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Archaeologist at @school_of_arch Oxford. Studying how hunter-gatherers became farmers. Views are my own. #Archaeobotany #NICHE_ox
Jun 2, 2022 20 tweets 6 min read
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… 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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