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Dr. Parmar -

 

There was a recent report in Science that figs have been domesticated at least 11,000 years.  If you believe the report (there was some controversy about the interpretation), then figs may have been the first domesticated plant of any kind.

 

Fred

 

 

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Science 2 June 2006: Vol. 312. no. 5778, pp. 1372 - 1374 DOI: 10.1126/science.1125910

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Early Domesticated Fig in the Jordan Valley

Mordechai E. Kislev,^1* Anat Hartmann,² Ofer Bar-Yosef³

It is generally accepted that the fig tree was domesticated in the Near East some 6500 years ago. Here we report the discovery of nine carbonized fig fruits and hundreds of drupelets stored in Gilgal I, an early Neolithic village, located in the Lower Jordan Valley, which dates to 11,400 to 11,200 years ago. We suggest that these edible fruits were gathered from parthenocarpic trees grown from intentionally planted branches. Hence, fig trees could have been the first domesticated plant of the Neolithic Revolution, which preceded cereal domestication by about a thousand years.

¹ Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel.
² Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology Department, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel.
³ Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kislev@mail.biu.ac.il

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TECHNICAL COMMENTS
Comment on "Early Domesticated Fig in the Jordan Valley"

Simcha Lev-Yadun, Gidi Ne'eman, Shahal Abbo, and Moshe A. Flaishman (15 December 2006)
Science 314 (5806), 1683a. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1132636]
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TECHNICAL COMMENTS
Response to Comment on "Early Domesticated Fig in the Jordan Valley"

Mordechai E. Kislev, Anat Hartmann, and Ofer Bar-Yosef (15 December 2006)
Science 314 (5806), 1683b. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1133748]
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
ARCHAEOLOGY: Ancient Figs Push Back Origin of Plant Cultivation

Ann Gibbons (2 June 2006)
Science 312 (5778), 1292a. [DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5778.1292a]
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On 8/12/08, Dr. Chiranjit Parmar <parmarch_mnd@dataone.in> wrote:

Dear NAFEXers,

 

Do you know which the oldest(or one of the oldest) fruit known to man?

 

If not, please go to the following link:

 

    http://www.fruitipedia.com/IFF.htm

 

Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
www.fruitipedia.com

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