African Pastoral: Archaeologists Rewrite History of Farming
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By BRENDA FOWLER
Published: July 27, 2004
Archaeologists have long believed that food production developed
worldwide much the way it did in the Near East: as climate changes
made wild grains less available, hunters and gatherers settled in
villages and relatively quickly domesticated plants and then, over the
next few thousand years, animals.
But recent genetic studies and excavations in Africa suggest that the
patterns of domestication there were strikingly different. This new
research, emerging in the last few years in academic books and
articles, shows that in Africa, wild cattle were domesticated several
thousand years before plants, and that farming and herding spread
patchily and slowly across the continent.
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