Population boom preceded early farming

Tuesday, August 2, 2016 - 19:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Anthropologists have counted the number of carbon-dated artifacts at archaeological sites and concluded that a population boom and scarce food explain why people in eastern North America domesticated plants for the first time on the continent about 5,000 years ago.

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