Holy Land farming began 5,000 years earlier than thought
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 17:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
By Douglas MainLiveScience AVDAT, Israel — For thousands of years, different groups of people have lived in the Negev desert, building stone walls and cities that survive to this day. But how did they make their living?The current thinking is that these desert denizens didn't practice agriculture before approximately the first century, surviving instead by raising animals, said Hendrik Bruins, a l...