New research has complicated the long-held idea that maize was domesticated about 9000 years ago in Mexico from wild grass. In Siberia, hunter-gatherers built complex forts 8000 years ago, challenging the notion that farming alone led to complex societies. The analysis of long IBD segments reveals the ancestry associated with earlier European farmers. Early Neolithic high mountain settlers were found to be carrying out complex livestock and farming activities. Ancient Trypillians lived in settlements of up to 15,000 people as early as 4100 BCE in what is now Ukraine and Moldova, with a largely plant-based diet and advanced cattle manure management system.
Ancient Trypillians lived in settlements of up to 15,000 people as early as 4100 BCE in what is now Ukraine and Moldova. Using isotopes, researchers reconstructed their largely plant-based diet and advanced system of cattle manure management. In PNAS: https://t.co/ZNfAxy5e4x https://t.co/t3r3UTp5rL
Early Neolithic high #mountain settlers were already carrying out complex #livestock and farming activities, finds study @UAB_info https://t.co/kLorsikPWT
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In remote Siberia, hunter-gatherers built complex forts 8000 years ago—upending the idea that farming alone led to complex societies. Learn more: https://t.co/ymc2IkuoWA @NewsfromScience https://t.co/kx5wq5jo4f
It took more than a century for scientists to settle on the idea that maize was domesticated about 9000 years ago in Mexico from wild grass. Now, new research has complicated that history. https://t.co/waP3amDgD3