Category: Archaeology

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Mapping the Neolithic Revolution

Somehow we missed this great map of the Fertile Crescent from National Geographic. It came out just before Christmas, but we should have caught it, really. I hope they do similar ones for other cradles of agriculture around the world.

The Fertile Crescent was the heartland of the Neolithic Revolution. Map by Fernando G. Baptista, NG Creative.
The Fertile Crescent was the heartland of the Neolithic Revolution. Map by Fernando G. Baptista, NG Creative.
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Nibbles: Svalbard, Fish tissue, Homegardens, Mothers’ seeds double, Citrus diversity, Paul Smith, Pulses, Hohokam, Nutrition profiles, Zulu cattle poetry, Cereals & CC, Soil biodiversity

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Nibbles: Dirty methane, Ag wages, Myrrh, Irish DNA, Oca harvest, Rice domestication, Millets

  1. The US is hiding meaty methane emissions.
  2. What’s an Indian agricultural labourer earn? It depends …
  3. The traditional year-end revisitation of the magic of myrrh.
  4. A year end knees-up argument of whether the Irish are from the Caspian steppes or some other place.
  5. The traditional harvest of odd non-potatoes, oca at year’s end, and oca at year’s beginning.
  6. A convenient year-end summary of crop domestication, mostly rice.
  7. Speaking of which, millets (and Jeremy) hit the big time.
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Nibbles: Ancient faba, Ampelography double, S. African cattle, CIMMYT in Ethiopia, Seed pix, Heirloom pix, Trifolium genome