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  • From: "Dr. Chiranjit Parmar" <parmarch_mnd@dataone.in>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The OLDEST fruit known to man.
  • Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:04:32 -0700
Robert Burns,
 
Thanks for pointing out.
 
I shall soon be preparing another "Fruit Fact" based upon your information.  I shall give the credit to you by putting words, "Input from Robert Burns" at the bottom.
 
Please supply me more interesting facts like that.  I am sure that you must be having some.
 
I request OTHER LISTMEMBERS too for the same.
 
Thanks and regards,
 
Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
www.fruitipedia.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The OLDEST fruit known to man.

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
 
 

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

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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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:
 
 
Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
www.fruitipedia.com

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