tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post6857833004710672969..comments2016-12-08T18:36:54.136+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Einkorn wheat domestication in KaracadağDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-87653985164561301052008-06-07T10:47:00.000+03:002008-06-07T10:47:00.000+03:00Finding how to plant cereals is common through out...Finding how to plant cereals is common through out Near East and Greece even from the Mesolithic.<BR/>Sporadic cultivation of a plant or sporadic herding of an animal doesn't justify the prise of being the first who domesticated the particular plants/animals.<BR/>For example in Shillourokambos of Cyprus a man was found with a cat buried there. The site in from 8200 BC, it is Neolithic, and it originates from the Levant. Some support that we should attribute to Cyprus the domestication of cats.<BR/>We know though that cats were domesticated in Egypt where intensive domestication of the species had been observed and many different types of the species where found in domesticated form.<BR/>Of course the dates of Egypt are much more recent (4500 BC).<BR/>There is the possibility that Cyprus after all might have domesticated cats before Egypt but that will require further research and evidence to be accepted.<BR/>Something similar might occur here.<BR/>Einkorn wheat have been found in Karacadag but extensive cultivation and earlier dates of it we have from Tell Abu Hureyra.<BR/>This Syrian site gives dates of 11500 BP (9500 BC) and also presents a strong Neolithic economy with a variety of domesticated plants.<BR/>Additionally Mureybet in Syria again also gives very early dates for the Einkorn wheat.<BR/>That's why we have to be careful in attributing Karacadag the title of the womb from which Einkorn wheat sprang.<BR/>Besides Nevali Cori, an Anatolian Neolithic site of 9000 BC, which is the twin of Cobekli Tepe which the post correlates with Karacadag did n't give samples of Einkorn wheat at all!!!<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Hureyra<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mureybet<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShillourokambosAntigonoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07781621903358782011noreply@blogger.com