TY - JOUR
T1 - Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley
AU - Kislev, Mordechai E.
AU - Hartmann, Anat
AU - Bar-Yosef, Ofer
PY - 2006/6/2
Y1 - 2006/6/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33744822485
U2 - 10.1126/science.1125910
DO - 10.1126/science.1125910
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C2 - 16741119
AN - SCOPUS:33744822485
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 312
SP - 1372
EP - 1374
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 5778
ER -