Israeli researchers find evidence of grain cultivation 15,000 years ago

Israeli researchers have found evidence that Natufian hunter-gatherers developed systematic methods for harvesting wild grains about 15,000 years ago, suggesting that humans were experimenting with managing wild crops thousands of years before established agriculture emerged.The findings, announced by the University of Haifa, provide new evidence of deliberate grain harvesting before the domestication of crops. Researchers say the Natufians harvested wild grains at different stages of maturity, indicating an organized process and detailed knowledge of the plants they relied on.“The findings not only indicate the harvesting of grains, but also the existence of species that do not decompose like the domesticated species that exist today, and the Natufians knew how to distinguish them and exploit them to increase the harvest,” said Dr. Iris Gruman-Yaroslavsky of the University of Haifa, who led the study.The Natufian culture existed in the Levant between roughly 15,000 and 12,000 years ago, as hunter-gatherer communities increasingly adopted…

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