-->Nicht mehr taufrisch, aber...

In einen 1998 veröffentlichten Büchlein hat z.B. Colin Tudge die Vermutung untersucht, dass die Proto-Landwirtschaft lange vor dem Ende der letzten Eiszeit bei unseren Sammler- und Jäger-Vorfahren etabliert war. 1998 gab es nur spärliche Anhaltspunkte für die Thesen von Tudge.

Nun haben Anthropologen der Harvard Universität (Cambridge/MA,USA) diese These von Tudge bestätigt. Ehud Weiss und seine Kollegen haben in Israel am ">http://www.kibbutz.co.il/map/sea_of_galille/] See von Galiläa in einer archäologischen Grabungsstelle namens
Ohalo II nicht nur diverse wilde Getreidereste sondern auch eine rudimentäre Mahl- und Backvorrichtung entdeckt.

Hier der einleitende Text des entsprechenden Artikels in dem reputierlichen Wissenschaftsmagazin „Nature“ vom 5. Aug. 2004

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and wheat (Triticum monococcum L.
and Triticum turgidum L.) were among the principal ‘founder
crops’ of southwest Asian agriculture1. Two issues that were
central to the cultural transition from foraging to food production
are poorly understood. They are the dates at which
human groups began to routinely exploit wild varieties of
wheat and barley, and when foragers first utilized technologies
to pound and grind the hard, fibrous seeds of these and other
plants to turn them into easily digestible foodstuffs. Here we
report the earliest direct evidence for human processing of grass
seeds, including barley and possibly wheat, in the form of starch
grains recovered from a ground stone artefact from the Upper
Palaeolithic site of Ohalo II in Israel. Associated evidence for an
oven-like hearth was also found at this site, suggesting that dough
made from grain flour was baked. Our data indicate that routine
processing of a selected group of wild cereals, combined with
effective methods of cooking ground seeds, were practiced at least
12,000 years before their domestication in southwest Asia.

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