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<< Other Photo Pages >> Ohalo II - Ancient Village or Settlement in Israel

Submitted by motist on Monday, 20 February 2017  Page Views: 5007

DigsSite Name: Ohalo II
Country: 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
Condition:
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Ohalo II
Ohalo II submitted by motist : Ohalo II Flint sickle-blade from Ohalo II Credit: Iris Groman-Yaroslavski and Dani Nadel (Vote or comment on this photo)
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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Ohalo II
Ohalo II submitted by motist : Ohalo II A Neolithic form of sickle, built of sharpened flints fitted into a handle, which could be made of wood or bone. Credit: Wolfgang Sauber, Wikimedia Commons (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ohalo II
Ohalo II submitted by motist : Ohalo II Micrograph of 23,000-year-old flint sickle blade, showing the sheen of use to harvest semi-ripe cereal and prehension polish, from Ohalo II, by the Sea of Galilee. Credit: Iris Groman-Yaroslavski and Dani Nadel (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ohalo II
Ohalo II submitted by motist : Ohalo II One of five flint sickle-blades from Ohalo II, showing glossing that fades from the edge, from about 23,000 years ago. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ohalo II
Ohalo II submitted by motist : Ohalo II Remains of oval and kidney-shaped 23,000-year old brush huts on the banks of the Sea of Galilee.Credit: Iris Groman-Yaroslavski and Dani Nadel (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ohalo II
Ohalo II submitted by motist : Ohalo II Flint sickle-blade from Ohalo II, dating to about 23,000 years agoCredit: Iris Groman-Yaroslavski and Dani Nadel

Ohalo II
Ohalo II submitted by motist : Ohalo II The Sea of Galilee: The inhabitants of Ohalo II lived on its shores 23,000 years ago, subsisting on hunting animals, fishing, gathering a ton of plants - and deliberately growing grain. Credit: Gil Magen

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Re: Evidence for plant cultivation at 23,000-year-old site in Galilee by 43559959 on Monday, 20 February 2017
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New Textbooks in our cherished subject.
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Sickles, sheeny sheeny sickles by Blingo_von_Trumpenstein on Monday, 20 February 2017
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This is an exciting and important discovery. Sickle blades are a passion of mine and the sheen that develops from use is quite unmistakable...and lasts at least 12,000 years
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Evidence for plant cultivation at 23,000-year-old site in Galilee by Andy B on Monday, 20 February 2017
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See also this article from Past Horizons
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2015/evidence-for-plant-cultivation-at-23000-year-old-site-in-galilee

and
The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131422

[and excellent site / news contribution - thanks Moti!]
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