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DigsSite Name: Ohalo IICountry: Israel
NOTE: This site is 0.872 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Tiberias Nearest Village: Kibuts Cineret
Latitude: 32.715728N Longitude: 35.571395E
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Remains of a miraculously preserved camp by the Sea of Galilee included brush huts, grains and stone tools that show farming began far earlier than thought. Agriculture is believed to have dawned around 12,000 years ago, in the Levant or southern Turkey. Now remains of a 23,000-year-old camp, including flint sickle blades and extraordinarily preserved botanical remains, found on the shore of the Sea of Galilee throws back the start of cereal cultivation by thousands of years.
Analysis of the sheen on the flint blades, and of the seeds proves that the Paleolithic inhabitants of the site called "Ohalo II" lived a chiefly hunting-gathering-fishing lifestyle, but were indeed growing wheat and barley. Remains of food grains had been found previously at the site, as had a grinding stone. Now the tools to harvest the grains have been found.
So cereal growing clearly goes back at least 23,000 years, but Prof. Dani Nadel of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa declines to state that "agriculture" does. Asked for the distinction, he explains, "Most people feel that agriculture is much more complex, that it is central to the economy, that everybody was geared into it. Here we have evidence for small-scale auxiliary cereal growing."
The Ohalo inhabitants clearly collected a lot from nature, both plants and animals, he elaborates. "These grains they grew would have augmented their hunter-gatherer diet, which consisted mainly of fish from the lake, animals they hunted or scavenged, birds,especially water fowl, and plants," says Nadel. "Cereal cultivation was just one of many strategies they had. Their eggs were not all in one basket. They would have tried all sorts of things."
Read more at Haaretz
Note: Flint Sickles prove grain cultivation in Galilee 23,000 years ago
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