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Wheat seed?
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Janet wrote: In article , says... It was primitive women who did the grinding. The men were out all day hunting and gathering. So who was sowing and harvesting those grain crops? The women? :-) Who cleared land of stones and trees and cultivated the soil fine enough to sow the grain in? In Britain, that's a damn good question - see Rackham and others. My personal speculation is that it was normally done by neither sex, but by ring-barking and intensive grazing. In most areas, that will convert woodland to grassland in under a century, and grassland is easy to convert to cultivation. In parts of the third world nothing has changed. In this country, hunter-gathering (found food) preceded agriculture (the clearing of forest to create grazing, breeding/tending livestock, cultivating soil to grow crops). Yup. By a LONG way. Homo sapiens is one of two current land mammals that has been here longest (tens of thousands of years). Clearing the woodland didn't start until c. 3,000 BC. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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