first known agriculture from southwest asia now from 21000 bc

[norseamd]

First use of grain agriculture in Southwest Asia is now from 21000 BC with the full suite of field cultivation, controlled use of plant species, tools and artifacts, and habitation structures.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150722144709.htm

 

[norseamd]

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-farming-ohalo-ii-israel-03052.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/bu-rip072215.php

 

[IronWing]

Pushs the development of agriculture well into the last ice age. Israel would have been in a climatic sweet spot.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Last_glacial_vegetation_map.png

 

[norseamd]

And only a thousand years after the last known Neanderthals.