granaries at work

[novapsyche]

Study: Food Storage Began Well Before Farming

People were storing grain long before they learned to domesticate crops, a new study indicates. A structure used as a food granary discovered in recent excavations in Jordan dates to about 11,300 years ago, according to a report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

That's as much as a thousand years before people in the Middle East domesticated grain, the research team [...] said.

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[laureth.livejournal.com]

Well, that makes sense. Gatherers had to do something with the surplus.